Enchantments: A Novel Of Rasputin's Daughter And The Romanovs - Plot & Excerpts
Nagorny buttoned “Handsome Alyosha” ’s coat as if he were a child, and “Handsome Alyosha” pushed his big kind hands away.I wanted to believe that Alyosha’s referring to himself in the third person, as Handsome Alyosha, was proof he’d intended the journal to find its way into my possession, or at least imagined it might. Perhaps, though, he was comforting himself by telling stories in the manner I had told them, and in this one way I remained with him until the end, just as he has remained with me.“You have a gift for the young lady?” Nagorny asked him.“Thank you for reminding me,” Alyosha called over his shoulder as he ran back into the house. “I’ll go fetch it.” He went directly to the room his sisters shared. Hairbrushes, ribbons, books. Tatiana’s glass horse. Was there anything they wouldn’t miss? He picked up one object after another: handkerchief, brooch, bottle of toilet water. A tiny rose tree planted in a porcelain pot with matching saucer. That would be missed, but not like a glass animal, and it didn’t require wrapping, like other gifts, which weren’t alive.
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