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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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Incomprehensible Behavior
While Mary Pigot awaits her fate in Edinburgh, Rev Hastie, unaware of the anonymous leaflet, accepts Mary Pigot's new employment conditions, and gets on with his job. He looks through his mail and finds a letter from his ally Col. Walker. It turns out the colonel forwarded some letters for his wife. She requests Hastie to read and forward them to a Dr Jardine. Not knowing what to expect, Hastie reads the letters. Hastie is an arrogant, some might say egotistical man, but his quarrel with Mary Pigot is structural. The letter writers accuse her of acts he can hardly comprehend. And what should he do with the letters?
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Two Coins: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
I pick up the first letter addressed to Mrs. Walker from a Mrs. Ella Augier. My God, it’s about the Female Mission. She writes about a Burmese lady parlor boarder, beaten. Children suffering from fits and other ill health. Hearsay that the orphanage is little better than a brothel.
Beatings? I’d no idea things were at such a state. Miss Pigot always struck me as a woman who avoided corporeal punishment. I feel my neck curl into my skull. How can this be? But a refined lady like Mrs. Walker wouldn’t spread scurrilous gossip. I sit dumbfounded while sweat trickles down my face. I force myself to pick up the next letter.
This one’s from a Miss Gordon who worked as a matron. Children beaten for refusing food.
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