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Everyone beahed, pleased that their lordship was ecstatic and happy there would be a little one brought into the home

She was not due yet, for by her husband’s reckoning, if he had iether, their child would co, three months hence

Her concerns had greatly affected her appetite and she was thin, Godwin said too thin, so she didn’t show for the actual reality of her pregnancy If only the baby would be late a feeeks…she couldlike a full term infant

She stared out theof her bedroo Let me have a feeeks, and then the baby would be seven months…yes, that would work”

Ti the baby was only a week late Would that serve or had her luck run out?

As she saw the stors, she knew her baby was on its way

The rabbed her wrist and said, “It is too soon…it isn’t right, the baby won’t be right…not due yet Perhaps it will die” She put on an act as best she could as she grabbed hold of the sheets and screaony of mind and body

“Whist now, m’lady, babies have no care for nature, they don’t hear the winds harshly blowing over Cornwall…baby says ‘tis tiently “Now don’t fret, you’ll do and so will the baby I have birthed many a babe before it was due”

His lordship had already been sent out of the room and paced with a frenzy he had never known before, but before he left his wife he asked the midwife, “It is scarcely seven months…scarcely…will our child survive?”

“There is no telling until the child is born Out with you now,” the midwife took command

Hours went by and finally he could stand it no more He burst into the room and demanded, “My wife…how is she?”

“Fine, fine, her water broke and as this is her first, it will be a hard birth…and there is naught we can do but keep her comfortable ‘til the little one decides to join us Nohist with you, m’lord”

When he had left, the midwife said quietly, “From your size, m’lady…I think this babe is as close to full term as ever I have seen”

“Yes, yes, it is obvious his lordship had e then,” Sara improvised

“Aye, but,” the h she had her doubts “Well then…we’llthis quiet is what you be wishful of”