Despite the Angels by Madeline A Stringer

Author:Madeline A Stringer [Stringer, Madeline A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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ISBN: 1484031342
Published: 2013-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

And we did, thought Lewis, as he glanced again at the clock, and we danced as though no one else mattered and were noticed by everyone, including the minister, sour old killjoy that he is. Neil and the others had good fun laughing at my expense over that. And I got teased unmercifully when I got back into the forge that first day with the buckle in my sweaty hands. Lewis grinned as he remembered how easy it had been, getting to know Dorothy, and how he had been able to say pretty things to her that would have tied his tongue with any other woman. None of their teasing matters now, he thought, because she is my own sweet Dorothy, we have our little Dawn, I am saving a bit from my work in the foundry and I will have my own smithy one day, maybe over in Dairsie, to be nearer the family, so Dawn can play with her cousins. Of course, he thought with a happy sigh, she will have brothers and sisters of her own to play with. It was not too bad for Dorothy, giving birth to Dawn, so maybe we can have many more. We will have to give the next one an ordinary name, or they will all think we are mad. But she was a beautiful new baby, who cried to greet the dawn. So what else could we call her?

“What indeed? Why break a habit of millennia? Even though it was actually the moon the baby was looking at, not the dawn” said Trynor, smiling indulgently at his old friend.

There was a crash in the street and Lewis went to the window and looked down. It was too dark to see, but he could hear the wind howling. The clock chimed seven, so he began to put on his coat. It could take longer, in this wind, to get down the hill to the station. He banked down the fire, to hold its heat for their return. Bitterly cold draughts sneaked in around the window frame and under the door from the stairwell, defying even Dorothy’s rag snake, which was pushed against the bottom of it. It would have been cold on the train too. Maybe the tearoom at the station would be open and they could warm themselves before setting off on the walk back home. Lewis went quickly over to the shelves and took a few coins out of the jar behind the saucepan, locked the door of their room and clattered down the stairs to the front door. As he opened it, it flew inwards with the force of the wind and he saw a large hoarding bowling along the street. He dragged the door shut, gathered his coat tightly around him and strode as fast as he could towards the station. It was a wild night and chimney pots flew through the air, one crashing at his feet. Lewis turned up his collar and broke into a trot.

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