Daughter of Strangers: From Famine to Fortune, An Unforgettable Saga in 1854 Manhattan by Maybelle Wallis

Author:Maybelle Wallis [Wallis, Maybelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Poolbeg Press
Published: 2024-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

After that, Joseph went to Guy Ellery’s every Saturday, if he could, but Anna was never there. When he got up the nerve to ask, Guy told him that Anna was fully occupied with her work at Flaxfield and unlikely to be back to Manhattan until later in the summer.

‘Has she written to you?’ Joseph asked, in the lightest tone.

‘Only once – to send her excuses. She’s busy, she says. One of her students having some kind of a problem with settling down at the school.’

Guy moved on with a smile to greet someone, leaving Joseph sipping his coffee in the corner and brooding as the other guests conversed.

It was his own fault, Joseph concluded: he should have been more forward, more flirtatious, done something, anything, to show her that he admired her. But Alex Royce had again cut in on their acquaintance, as abruptly as though they had been at a dance. He had been surprised that Royce had remembered him. He had seen Royce at the races, years ago, at the Curragh, at Lucan, or wherever, riding to victory in his cavalry uniform. Joseph, a lowly assistant to Dr Wright, on duty for the Turf Club, had never been introduced, and had learned of Lieutenant Royce’s engagement to Anna Meredith-Browne with a sense of inevitable disappointment.

But that was not the reason to assassinate the father, he assured himself. That had been political, as if it that were a better reason for murder, according to some ghastly hierarchy of crime.

Whatever way it would be classified when the Day of Judgement came, Joseph had learnt to push the evil memory aside. Yet now that he had seen Alex so close up, seen how the son was so like the father, he could not.

For it was as if the father had risen in vengeance from the dead, and instead of claiming his soul, was intent on breaking his heart.

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