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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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The Letter
An unopened letter is a mystery. There might be a return address, but to know the contents, someone must open the letter. Sometimes we tear into the envelope, anxious to review its contents. Sometimes we just don't care, because too many events have happened. There are times when news that once might have been good comes too late to help us. Mary Pigot has reached that point. She's hit bottom. Mary isn't sure anything has meaning any more. What will happen if Mrs Wilson opens the letter? Will it matter?
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Two Coins: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
It’s cold, the leaves have changed color, and I don’t have proper clothes. I huddle over my spinning wheel at the hearth, next to the cauldron where dinner boils. Mrs. Wilson has a tall spinning wheel. I sit in a straight-backed chair in front of it and turn the wheel with my right hand while I pull the wool fiber towards me as it winds onto the bobbin. Pulling and turning. Turning and pulling. Spinning doesn’t take much attention and my mind wanders. I don’t think of Calcutta. I wonder how Catriona is doing at her new position at Crieff Hydropathical Establishment. I hope the Wilson lads do well at school. Mrs. Wilson and I don’t climb the hillock because it rains most afternoons. Some days it’s all I can do to get out of bed, but most days I spin.
One day, perhaps a month later, Mrs. Wilson interrupts my spinning to tell me I have a letter.
“Shall I open it?” Mrs. Wilson looks concerned.
“If you like,” I say. I don’t really care.
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