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Sandra Wagner-Wright
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Two Coins: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
Literature & Fiction
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Get Rid of Them
William Hastie returns to duty, all thoughts of cholera behind him. It's not that he lives in the present moment. He just overlooks irrelevant events. He was sick. Now he's well. More important, he's on his way to meet his new colleagues and tell them what to do. James Wilson rides with him. Wilson's thoughts are unclear. He has to get along with this man and has an affection for life in Calcutta. An affection Hastie doesn't share. Hastie complains about the sun, and the peddlers offering their wares. He didn't like the Mohurrum procession. Already Hastie seems unsuited to his new post.
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Two Coins: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
Fully recovered, I resume my introduction to Calcutta life at the end of the week. Mr. Steele offers me the use of his open carriage so I can attend my first meeting of the Corresponding Board. No doubt they’ll defer to my judgment. Mr. Wilson rides with me.
“It seems the sun never stops shining in Calcutta,” I remark. “Day after day after day.”
“You’ll miss it when the rains come,” Mr. Wilson says with a knowing smile.
Peddlers trot alongside our carriage in various states of dress. They look like children and are painfully thin. They have all sorts of trinkets, shell necklaces, small idols. I don’t like being surrounded.
“Away with you!” I shout.
The peddlers keep offering ribbons, shells. One has birds in a cage. A few even have small snakes in baskets.
“Mr. Wilson, I implore you. Get rid of them.”
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