Love And Music Will Endure (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
She was glad of the hardness that numbed even her well-upholstered bottom. It meant that she was too uncomfortable to fall asleep, or even worse, start snoring, during the minister’s lengthy sermon. It was a relief to be sitting still, whatever the discomfort. She was finding midwifery draining, much harder than the ordinary nursing had ever been. The worst part of the nursing had been the feeling that she was sinking in a sea of English, its brackish taste swilling in her mouth and making her thirst for a chill, clean stream of Gaelic. Still, by degrees it had become easier, like the light nibbling away at the edges of January darkness. She had looked forward to the midwifery training for it meant that she could work outside the hospital with its stiff rules and insist on her own standards of cleanliness. However, she had not realised what a toll it would take on her ageing body. A midwife was rightly called a ‘bean-ghlùine’ for she spent so much of her time cramped on her knees, watching and waiting on the labouring woman.
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