Trinity by Leon Uris

Author:Leon Uris [Uris, Leon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780060827885
Google: UXrm1KH752IC
Amazon: 0060827882
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2006-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

out of earshot of the others.

“You’ve nothing to prove or gain by your behavior. We’re all the same when it comes to this. Let yourself go, darling’.”

“I can’t,” Caroline whispered…. “I can’t.”

The doctor drew Roger aside.

“Everything looks fine,” he said.

“Mrs. O’Neill will be preparing your wife now, Lord Roger. I think you should wait outside.”

“We’ve decided to go it together as long as I am able.”

lan Cruikshank grunted. Strange, he thought, but quite nice. Odd pair these, stubborn as hell but so in it together.

He scratched his head, trying to think of cause, but acquiesced.

“Well, stay out of our way.”

The night blackened up outside and even as the pains intensified to excruciating thresholds, Caroline continued to refuse to cry out. In the seventh hour of her labor, Mai read tapped the dozing doctor.

“It’s coming,” she said.

Roger was up and at bedside holding his wife’s hand.

“Bear down, m’lady,” Mairead said, “that’s it, bear down now, love, bear down …”

“Freddie1” Caroline shrieked at the instant of Jeremy’s birth.

“Freddie! Freddie! Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!”

CHAPTER THREE: Having come to the most awesome decision of her life, Finola was determined to steel herself to go through with it, take all the necessary humiliation, for in her own eyes her sins were enormous.

The priest’s presbytery was the finest house in the Upper Village and that was as it should be in the tradition of the Church. It was not in the mold of the simple cottages but a grand two-story home such as the more prominent Protestants owned in Ballyutogue. Widow O’Donnelly, the priest’s housekeeper, admitted Finola and led her to a small but fine room of soft deep furnishings which members of the parish had purchased two years earlier.

“And how is wee Dary?” Father Lynch inquired of the new baby.

“You’ll not see the likes of that one again in a hundred,” she boasted of her favorite subject.

“Dary will be a small child and more delicate than the others, but he’ll be sound, I’ll see to that. I never stop being grateful to the holy Mother for sparing his life.”

Father Lynch accepted the gratitude on behalf of the Virgin.

“And yourself, Finola? What urgent matter brings you here?”

She twisted her fine linen handkerchief nervously and struggled to keep her composure.

“I’ve a lot on my conscience, Father. What I am about to tell you should have been confessed many times over the years.”

Father Lynch grim med up and braced.

“Father,” she whispered, lowering her eyes and voice weakening with shame, “I have been the wife of Tomas Larkin almost twenty years and I have sinned all during the marriage.” She squirmed, then blurted out, “I have always enjoyed pleasures of the flesh.”

The priest shot to his feet, clasped his hands behind him and thrust his face heavenward.

“I see,” he sighed.

“Would you kindly amplify that remark?”

“I’ve almost always enjoyed the sexual act,” she whispered.

“That’s quite unnatural, you know.”

“I know.”

“Exactly what is it you enjoy?”

“Everything,” she whimpered.

Father Lynch pulled his chair up close and poked his face next to hers.

“What you have told me is extremely serious.

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