The Apprentice's Masterpiece by Melanie Little

Author:Melanie Little
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV016070
Publisher: Annick Press Ltd
Published: 2008-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

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I’m having a good laugh at myself.

Beautiful dove of a woman, indeed! It seems

I’m not so above Ramon after all—

concocting a lithe young protectress

instead of this solemn old bear of a man.

Then I see her.

Only her eyes are uncovered.

But their light shines brighter

than seven boatloads of yellow

Bea hair.

“My daughter says she has fed you,

my friend,” the man says. “For a week!

You are lucky my daughter is fond

of defying the rules of her parents.”

Her eyes smile.

It’s too sweet to endure.

But that is not why

I must look away.

It is as if I’m a small boy again, no more

than three. And I sit at a table with my

dear mother.

Time stands still, for a breath, in its glass.

We are, both of us, in this instant, here.

And both of us free.

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