The Bargain: A Port Elizabeth Regency Tale: Episode 2 - Plot & Excerpts
The birth had gone all wrong. Eliza wasn't going to make it. Precious coddled the newborn in her arms, smoothing linen about his tiny body. He looked mighty content, for all the ruckus his early comin' caused. Lowering her gaze to the sweat-dampened bedsheets, the spatters of crimson swaddling the blanket by Eliza’s stomach, only questions remained. Why Eliza? Why now? The doctor shifted from his post at the door. “There’s nothing more to be done." His starched tie fell asunder. He looked very different from the know-it-all who’d arrived hours earlier. If the man had only listened and taken the babe sooner, Eliza wouldn't be so weak now. "I'll get the vicar.” The cowardly man left the bedchamber. The butler stalked away from the bed, and passed Precious as if she weren't there. He rounded to the window. Palmers’s old stone face looked broken. “How will we tell His Lordship?” Useless menfolk; thinkin' of other men, not Eliza. They should be encouraging her mistress, not counting the seconds for the reaper to appear.
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