Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra Gulland

Author:Sandra Gulland [Gulland, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Historical
ISBN: 9781443403542
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: 1998-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

[Undated]

“Yeyette?” Mimi set a tray down on the table beside the bed. “I got the cook to make some plantain bread for you.” She handed me a piece.

“Oh Mimi, I’m so miserable,” I confessed. I’d slept alone for three nights, tossing and turning.

“The General is unhappy, as well.”

“Oh?” I bit into the heavenly smelling loaf, my childhood welling up around me in my mind.

“I’ve never in my life seen a more miserable man.” “Good!” I said, but blinking back tears.

“I think it’s time we talked,” she said, handing me a flannel to dry my face.

And so we did. I told her how confused I was about Bonaparte, how angry he made me, how exasperating he was. And then I told her how brilliant I believed him to be, how his mind was volcanic, always thinking—and how it frightened me sometimes, knowing the thoughts in his mind, knowing his dreams. I told her how different we were, how hard it was to live with him. And then I told her how alike we were, how we’d both grown up on islands, far from France, how we knew what it was like to be an outsider. And then I told her how he loved me more than anyone had ever loved me, and how he needed me, how I was his good luck star, and how sometimes I felt we were fated.

“Do you think he is your spirit friend?”

“I fear so,” I cried, weeping anew.

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