Anne Rivers Siddons by Colony (pdf)

Author:Colony (pdf) [Colony (pdf)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-05-27T12:38:30+00:00

306 / Anne Rivers Siddons

guest bedrooms until the wedding, but if that did not suit he

would be happy to find lodgings in the village.

Happy was still sixteen on that tender green day in June.

She was also two months pregnant. The swift, cold quietus

Peter started to deliver to her plans died in his mouth when

she told us that. He stared at her in shock and disbelief, the

sharp angles of his face leaping into relief as if flesh were ac-

tually draining away from bone. I felt the breath leave my

body and could not seem to regain it. Happy smiled a beatific

smile; she seemed in every way that evening a woman, ripe

and totally contained and indolent in her glowing skin.

Tommy O’Ryan gave Peter a practiced smile both obsequious

and familiar. He did not even look at me.

“So what do you think?” Happy said, and only then did I

hear the tremor in her voice and understand that she was

terrified and trying to bluff it through. “Can Tommy stay with

us or not?”

“Are you out of what passes for your mind, Camilla?” Peter

said in a low, terrible voice. Even I, shocked and horrified,

flinched instinctively from it. It cut like a lash. “He may not

stay with us, nor may he remain in this house. He will leave

this instant and you will go to your room and wait until your

mother and I have had a chance to think, and then we will

tell you what we are going to do next. How in the name of

God did this happen? The school bus driver? The school

mechanic? How on God’s earth did this happen?”

Happy’s face contorted. It rearranged itself into a smile

that had nothing in it at all of childhood or innocence. I shut

my eyes against that smile.

“It’s easy, Daddy,” she said. “You just drop your pants and

he puts his thing into your thing and sooner or later there’ll

be a baby. I thought you knew. I’ve heard you and Mother

often enough.”

I thought he was going to strike her and moved swiftly

between them. Tommy O’Ryan, still smiling,

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