The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding

Author:Georgina Harding [Harding, Georgina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2010-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

He sees the child at once, lit in the glow from the stove. A baby asleep. It sleeps with that serenity seen only in the very young, such trust in the smoothness of the closed eyelids, the curl of the lashes, the faint curl of a mouth that smiles in a dream. It is plump and warm, the shawl in which it is wrapped loose about it, basking in a warmth that he enveloped in all his furs can scarcely imagine. Can this be his son? For the first time he knows what it is to have a living son. He kneels down, takes in the pinkness of the boy's cheeks, the softness of his skin, his round arms, his little loosely clenched fists, the dark-gold curls beneath his cap. He removes a glove and understands that even the most tender touch would burn like ice on that little coiled hand that seems to reach out to him.

What if he were to touch him? Would he wake and cry, a boy's lusty cry to fill the cabin, or would he disappear? He reaches out in wonder and in horror, holds his fingers an inch away; their tips can sense the warmth that comes off a sleeping body. If this is a hallucination, he could not have believed one could be so complete, so warm, so alive. Even she did not come so alive to him.

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