![]() ![]() And she'd stared harder at Ma's lovely, tired, familiar secretive face. ![]() a second chance."īut Laurel had heard it. I'm so thankful, so lucky to have." Her old lips had trembled then, and her eyelids fluttered shut, and the others had rushed around her with kisses and cries of "Dearest, darling Mummy!" so they'd missed it when she said, ". "Look at all of you, look at my children. "I'm so fortunate," she said, in a slow, rickety voice. The late-flowering roses blushed on the bushes behind her, and she clasped her hands together, idly rolling the rings that fell now loosely around her knuckles. “At her ninetieth birthday party, as her three great-granddaughters wove necklaces from daisies, and her grandson tied a hanky around his own son's bleeding knee, and her daughters made sure everyone had cake and tea enough, and someone shouted, "Speech! Speech!," Dorothy Nicolson had smiled beatifically. ![]()
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