Sword of Fortune by Christopher Nicole

Author:Christopher Nicole [Nicole, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00OROA9GU
Goodreads: 23442740
Publisher: Century
Published: 1989-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

Diary of Mrs Alistair Lamont, 3 May 1787

I am the most wretched and unhappy of women.

To carry a babe for nine months, to bring her forth in pain, to feed her at one’s breast, to care for her, to love her, and then to have her die at less than a year old—it rends the very soul.

Poor sweet Lucy! I do not think I have ever truly loved another human being before as I loved my daughter.

Alistair has quickly recovered from his grief, and intimates that he expects me quickly to recover from mine, so he can come at me again, stabbing furiously, night after night.

And Andrew has already had the bad taste to ask for an assignation, quite failing to understand the depth of a mother’s grief. Oh, men are such fools. To think that the world is run by such weakness!

Alistair says he has heard that Richard has fled from the fearsome Begum, and is serving a mad Irishman, who is claiming a viceroyalty of his own. If I were a man, I would seek Richard out, fight at his side, and live life to the hilt until I died.

But since I am a woman, I must be content to grieve. And to dream.

Oh, Richard!

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