Rosemary for Remembrance by Christine Arness

Author:Christine Arness [Arness, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626818156
Google: aqDACQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00YNFFRX8
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Goodreads: 25646343
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 1990-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

A timer went off on the stove and Belle rose to attend to the stew. Abigail waited a moment, but the woman remained silent.

“What was the shouting about?”

Belle shrugged, as immovable as a boulder blocking a path.

Abigail shuffled the photographs into a stack and slipped them back into her shoulder bag. She tried to provoke a response. “Rosemary seduced both father and son, quite an accomplishment for a girl barely eighteen years old.”

Belle removed the stew from the heat and gave it a final stir with a wooden spoon before removing the celery stalks and placing them on a paper towel. Without turning, she said, “Mr. Lawrence was a man of the flesh—he needed women and he hated them for making him need them. But he was more than a match for Rosemary—she didn’t get what she came looking for.”

“What do you mean?”

“I was putting sheets into the linen cupboard outside the bedroom and I heard her crying and Mr. Lawrence talking. ‘Your coming here today proves that you’re just trash. You’ll get no money from me. Stay away from my son or I’ll break you.’”

Belle turned and dried her hands on her apron. “When he said ‘break you,’ I heard something shatter. After Rosemary ran down the stairs, Mr. Lawrence came out and ordered me to clean up some broken china in his room. He’d smashed a little vase that had belonged to his wife—hurled it against the wall to make a point.”

Abigail reached out a hand to stroke the smooth outlines of the bottle of vinegar in a protective gesture as the other woman continued. “Mr. Lawrence should have been a butcher—he could have cut the throat of a lamb without flinching. To him Rosemary wasn’t worth more than an animal and he’d have done anything to keep Mr. Austin from marrying the girl. Now, if you’ll excuse me, Ms. James…”

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