Dreamland (City Of Fire Book 1) by Kevin Baker

Author:Kevin Baker [Baker, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Historical
ISBN: 9780061983733
Google: Vn2OohoKWlcC
Amazon: B000FC11II
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-06T07:00:00+00:00

The argument went on for hours, finally winding down after midnight, still unresolved. The women unbent themselves slowly from their little cane chairs, wearily contemplating the fourteen-hour day ahead. The majority was leaning to a strike, but no one wanted to go out just now. The new season was starting and some money was coming in, and anyway the men who ran the union executive board hadn’t bothered to come down after all.

But if not now, when? When would it ever change?

—though secretly, Esther had to admit she was just as glad no decision had been made. She was sure she was a coward, but she was still glad she didn’t have to think about it just yet: the gangsters and their jeering whores, the policemen’s heavy wooden billy clubs. She should be braver, she knew, but what misery this life was.

“Good night, sweetest,” Clara told her when they reached the street corner. She hugged her, then kissed her once on each cheek.

“Wait—I have something for you.”

Esther pulled a small package out of her purse. She had almost forgotten, after all the nonsense about the hat, and everything else. It was not wrapped as nicely as Clara herself would do it, she knew—but she had done it up in her favorite, red paper, and tied it round with a bright yellow bow.

“Here you are,” she told her. “They’re the sonnets. I found them in the Freie Bibliothek.”

Clara carefully opened the package. Inside was a small packet of notepaper, folded over, on which Esther had written out some of Shakespeare’s sonnets that Clara had first introduced her to. She had written them out in her best hand, going over them painstakingly, late at night—though now she blushed to see her own writing:

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