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London, August 1823
Dear mother, how have you been? I would like to know if you are well and if you have received my presents. I haven’t heard from you in a while. I want to tell you that I have good news. In about seven months you are going to be a grandmother. Isaac and I are happy. He has told me that he would like you to visit us one day. In times like this, I feel like I wish to have my mother around me.....
“Honey, are you all right?” Angustias turned around to see her husband on the doorstep.
“Yes, my love. I am fine. I was just writing a letter to my mother.”
“I am asking because you have been crying.” Isaac touched her cheek with his hand.
“Oh... I wasn´t aware.”
“If it makes you upset to write to your mother maybe you should leave it, honey.” Isaac took a seat on her side.
“I was going to tell her about our good news. And I want her to know that I would like to feel her support by the time our baby is born. But I think this is a letter that I will never send.” Angustias sounded without hope. “I will tell her about my pregnancy. But I won’t tell her to come, given the fact that my mother´s idea of a pregnancy is that it causes pain and that it is our punishment for our sin.”
“So maybe the best you can do right now is take the love of all the people that care about you. We are happy about the arrival of this baby. Sonia is telling everyone that wants to listen that she is the aunt of this boy. She is going to spoil him so much. All the people we know, our friends, and even the servants are happy about it. They have been spoiling you a little.”
Angustias laughed. “That is true. But think that there is a chance that it will be a girl,” Angustias said smiling with a special spark in her eyes.
“A girl,” repeated Isaac dreamingly. He was fascinated by the idea, and he was amazed by the change that Angustias had gone through in a couple of months. Their marriage was wonderful. Isaac touched his wife’s belly. It almost didn’t show any signs of her future motherhood yet. “Everything is going to be all right,” he said, kissing her on the neck.
“I know,” answered Angustias turning around to hug him. “It doesn’t seem real to me that a year has passed since we have been together, and without fighting or bad surprises. I feel like I am living in a fantasy,” sighed Angustias
“Life isn’t perfect my love. Sometimes we will get into trouble. We will have to solve some situations along the way, but I trust we will come out successfully. The strength of our love is going to help us.”
“You can be sure of that.” Angustias felt encouraged by her husband’s words.
“Now, how about we go and say hi to our friends? They have just arrived.”
That day they had a special guest. Rose Jhonson, a friend of Angustias that she hadn’t seen in a long while. She had come to ask Angustias for help, to do the very thing that Angustias had done a year ago, hunt for a nobleman.
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