The Ladies' Lending Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer

Author:Janice Kulyk Keefer [Keefer, Janice Kulyk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781443440417
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Published: 2007-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

“What do you suppose she was sick with—asthma?” offers Nastia.

“Of course not. She would have had some kind of terrible fever. They would have had to watch at her bedside night and day, feeling her fluttering pulse for vital signs.”

“Maybe it was T.B.”

“Maybe,” Laura answers cautiously.

“Lesia Ukrainka had T.B. She spent her winters in Egypt; she would have died of cold if she’d stayed in Ukraine.” Nastia brightens—it pleases her to be able to share this knowledge. It’s like a gift she’s making Laura, and she has so few things to offer. Emboldened, she ventures a little more. “I had a positive reaction to a T.B. test once. My whole arm swelled up and went bright red.”

“Then it wasn’t T.B. Elizabeth Taylor had, that’s for sure.” Laura knows she’s being unkind, but she has the actress’s glamour to protect, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing that Elizabeth Taylor and Nastia Shkurka could ever have in common. She decides to change the subject, reading out another passage from the Souvenir Booklet, one that sends shivers down her crooked spine. (Her mother is always at her to stop slouching, warning her she’ll be a cripple by the time she’s twenty.)

Burton is five feet, nine inches tall, is as wide-shouldered and rugged as a fullback, can blaze into righteous anger on occasion, and will calm down just as quickly. Splendidly educated, he will in conversation range over a host of subjects with keen, piercing intelligence.

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