Feathers in the Fire by Catherine Cookson

Author:Catherine Cookson [Cookson, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Cookson, saga, Fiction, romance, historic, social history, womens general fiction
ISBN: 9781780360140
Publisher: Peach Publishing
Published: 2011-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

‘Arnold shan’t be asked to countenance it, I shall be married in Hexham.’

They stood glaring at each other now. The wind had loosened her hair and a strand had fallen over her eyes. She pushed it to one side and with it the first tears, but so full was she of anger that they ran slow. But not so her legs when she turned from him and, picking up her skirts, raced through the fields.

When she entered the farmyard she looked like someone demented. Amos was coming out of the stables and he called to her, ‘What’s the matter, Jane? Jane! Stop a minute. What is it?’ But she took no heed. Nor of Molly in the kitchen who came from the sink, saying, ‘Good God, Miss, what’s happened to you?’ She ran past her and up the stairs to her room, and there she stood gasping for a minute before throwing herself on to the bed.

It was only seconds later when Molly entered the room and, putting her hands on her shoulders, said gently, ‘Tell us, Miss, what is it? What’s upset you?’

‘Nothing, nothing.’ She shook her head from side to side.

‘Aw, Miss! now come on, you don’t get in a state like this, not you for nothin’ you don’t.’

‘What is it?’ Amos came hobbling into the room and, thrusting Molly aside, he dropped his crutches on the floor and hoisted himself on to the side of the bed and, pulling Jane round to him, gazed tenderly down into her tear-swamped face, saying, ‘Tell me, tell me what’s happened. Someone done something?’

She gulped in her throat, then drew her fingers across her eyes, groped for a handkerchief, wiped it round her face, and looking at him, gulped quietly, ‘Father . . . Father’s going to marry again.’

The expression on Amos’ face remained as it had been a moment before, full of concern, kindly; then as the seconds passed it slowly took on a look of utter blankness.

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