First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women by Eric McCormack

Author:Eric McCormack [McCormack, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-14-319825-3
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2016-01-25T16:00:00+00:00

Three years passed. John and Jim Chapman both left school and worked on Mr Chapman’s boat. I was fourteen, and a stranger would have taken me for a typical island boy: I wore the black pants, the white shirt, the black boots; my face was burnt by the sun. I spoke with the island twang. During those three years, I was happier than I could ever have believed. I had a home, I was part of a real family.

Yet, in spite of everything, I was still visited occasionally by that awful nightmare: I’d be standing at the edge of a great pit and the ground would start to crumble away beneath my feet. No matter how hard I tried to run away, I’d slip backwards. I’d feel myself slipping downwards, downwards, into a chasm so black I couldn’t see the bottom. Or sometimes, in the nightmare, I’d be standing at the edge of the pit, quite secure; then I’d hear footsteps running at me from behind and someone would try to push me over the edge. I’d wake up, sweating, and I’d lie there listening to the rigging of the boats on the beach jangling in the night wind. I’d feel such a sense of dread I couldn’t get back to sleep, even if I were brave enough to risk the nightmare again.

Near the end of spring in my third year on St Jude, something happened that made that awful feeling seem prophetic.

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