Waiting for Time by Bernice Morgan

Author:Bernice Morgan [Morgan, Bernice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, ebook, book
ISBN: 9781550810806
Google: 9S2Vyo9u6IAC
Amazon: 1859035930
Barnesnoble: 1859035930
Goodreads: 485290
Publisher: Breakwater
Published: 1994-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

nine

Rachel was disappointed. She wanted to keep on writing out her Nan's story. She had been enjoying it, it kept her mind off the strange movements inside her belly, off her fear of childbirth, distracted her from thinking about the mixture of sorrow, pity and curiosity she saw in people's eyes.

But, “I'll have to think on it,” Mary said. “Regards things happened here on the Cape, I expects Vinnie put all that down. Tomorrow we can start readin' what Vinnie wrote—and them pages Thomas Hutchings put in. No sense markin' down the same words over again.”

So, the next morning Rachel settled the old woman comfortably in her rocking chair and began to read: “In the beginning we all lived on Monk Street in Weymouth and we was all happy…”

She read for hours. Sometimes Mary seemed to be sleeping but whenever Rachel paused she would give a start and without opening her eyes direct her great-granddaughter to go on. The day was well along when Rachel came to the part of Lavinia's journal recording Mary's arrival on Cape Random: “Mary Bundle come ashore today, she's the nearest thing to a savage any Christian soul is likely to see,” the girl read.

Mary sat bolt upright, made an unpleasant sound and jabbed at the book, “Show me!” she said, “Show me where that's writ to!”

Rachel pointed out the words.

“I can hardly credit Vinnie markin' such a thing down!”

The old woman stared into the fire, brooding on the treachery of her friend. The sharp, bony face peering out from the folds of blanket seemed hardly human, more like the face of a large bird guarding some mountain cave.

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