Local Customs by Audrey Thomas

Author:Audrey Thomas [Thomas, Audrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical
ISBN: 9781459707986
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Amazon: B00APYSWFQ
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Goodreads: 15027836
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Letty: George said to me one evening in early October, “Why Letty, you look wonderful; you are positively blooming.”

“Thank you, George,” I said, “I do believe this climate agrees with me. And yet a little bird told me your friends were placing bets on how long I’d last.”

George: Yes, I heard that rumour as well, but I don’t believe it.

Letty: I shall have to observe who has the longest face and then I shall know which one wagered a guinea on “dead within a fortnight.”

George: It was quite amazing. I had been unwell since the day we arrived — fever, chills, costiveness — and here was this London belle, this glasshouse flower, flourishing.

Mr. Freeman: All this young flesh, all this display, this ripeness. Testing me. God was testing me. But I could not help envying Mr. and Mrs. Topp and their obvious contentment.

Letty: I asked Mr. Freeman one day why he thought all the other missionaries died of fever when I had not even suffered from a touch of it.

“Perhaps because you live at the Castle, on higher ground.”

“Then George should have been spared illness as well. And you, you live in town.”

“I believe I was spared because God has plans for me.”

“I see.”

Freeman: She smiled and a little dimple appeared at the side of her cheek.

“And does God have plans for me, then?”

“I am not privy to God’s plans.”

Letty: “Ah,” said Mr. Freeman, dining with us one evening, “Gentlemen’s Relish, how wonderful!” Rubbing his hands together. How badly he wanted to be one of us.

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