This Island's Mine by Philip Osment

Author:Philip Osment [Osment, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786827548
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2019-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

IRINA: Does her perfume linger?

VLADIMIR: So that Vladimir imagines he is sleeping in her lap?

IRINA: Perhaps for him she is not dead and he can feel

A bejewelled and wrinkled hand stroking his fur.

Madame Irina was a White Russian princess

Brought to London by a far-seeing aunt in 1913.

The story goes that she brought with her

The family jewels

Disguised as a box of truffles,

Each gem cunningly coated in chocolate.

She lived out the rest of her life here in this house

With a string of paid companions and cats,

Waiting for the day that never came,

When Erkaterinburg would be avenged

And she would return to Mother Russia.

So she ended her days

Sitting in this chair

With her cats around her

At her side a bell

To summon Miss Rosenblum,

Popping chocolates between her pampered lips.

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