False Enchantment by Helen Magee

Author:Helen Magee [Magee, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781905665358
Publisher: Pollinger in Print
Published: 2007-07-29T23:00:00+00:00

‘My dear child,

I wrote to your Aunt some weeks ago requesting permission to write to you directly and that dear lady was kind enough to allow me to do so. Unfortunately I have been ill and was not well enough to write before now. If your Aunt has told you of my intention then you will understand now that it was not through lack of inclination that I have not written but because of the limitations that my ageing body imposes upon me.

It is many years since your father was lost so tragically at sea and I confess that at the time I had little wish to see the daughter he left behind. I was younger then. I railed against the fate that had robbed me of both my son and my fortune, I had no wish to be reminded of him. This will seem cruel to you as it now does to me, and now that I am growing old and frail I find in myself a great desire to see the child he left behind. I would like to speak to you of him as a child, as a young man and of your mother, the sweetest of creatures. I would like to see their child and my granddaughter. You will have every justification for tearing this up, for saying I have no right to ask this of you. I have earned no such right, but if you could find it in your heart to be generous, to please an old man who has been foolish in the past and who finds himself, at the end of his life, alone, I should like to see you before I die. There is no greater pleasure I could have, no greater service you could do me than to come to London to see me. Feel no obligation, Abby. I deserve no duty but please, come,

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