He warned her from the beginning. “Don’t put your trust in
me,” he said, as he stitched the lace ruff to the corset of her dress. “Just
because I am a dressmaker, doesn’t mean I belong in the home.” His cheek was
close to her bosom and the sharp needle glinted in the candlelight.
“But, Sandy,” she said. “Only a trustworthy man would say
that.” So, she kept coming back to him with requests of new costumes for her stage
act: The Travelling Woman, and after she’d been fitted they would retire to his
flat above the costume shop and live as man and wife for two or three days and
nights, until a performance called her back or the shop needed to be aired to
stop the fabric from getting musty.
One day, she got a proposal from a rich gentleman who had
taken a fancy to her from the Royal Box. “Your costumes are so glorious,” he
said. “You look like a performing orchid. You could be the centrepiece of my
estate. How are you with running family affairs?”
Now, The Travelling Woman had received many proposals from
men over the years, but this gentleman was taller than the others and she loved
a tall man, and what’s more he wore plush green velvet; every man is attractive
in shades of dark green.
“Thank you, Lord Spick, for your generous suggestion, but I
love another. The man who made the costumes you admire so much, in fact.” She hardly
knew what she was saying, but it was out of her mouth before she could stop it
with her gloved hand – gloved by Sandy, in soft white leather with twenty
pearls for buttons.
“He is very nimble with a needle,” said the Lord. He bowed
low and took leave.
When The Travelling Woman returned to Sandy’s shop, with an
anticipatory blush in her cheeks, she was horrified to find it boarded up. She
hammered at the boards, and when nobody came, she ripped them away with
unaccountable strength, borne from the love she had tended like a plant over
the last year.
Inside, she found Sandy slumped over a table, with both of
his hands as fat as clubs.
“They broke my hands,” he said, his mouth a parallelogram of
pain. “I need to go to the hospital but I think they might amputate.”
Over the next few months, The Travelling Woman nursed Sandy
back to health, and though his fingers could no longer sew, he was able to
draw, and what he drew were the plans for a machine that could sew forth automatically, making line upon line of neat and tight stitch, and what’s more,
it would be strong enough to penetrate leather and canvas.
The Travelling Woman took the plans to engineers and
presented to them with her most professional face, and one man bought the designs
for a large sum of money.
With the money, Sandy and The Travelling Woman ordered twenty
of the finished machines and built a dressmaking factory, giving work to young
women. The Travelling Woman became the Head of Personnel, and everyone loved to
work for her. Sometimes the girls would sing as they worked.
Many years later, when the couple were reading by the fire,
she asked him why he warned her away all those years ago. “You said
not to put my trust in you.”
“I’m an ex-convict,” he said, simply. “When I was younger, I
stole a hen and it all blew up into a much bigger matter than it should have
done. I’m probably still a wanted man in Somerset.”
“Well, you’re a wanted man, here,” said The Travelling
Woman, feeling lucky. She had lived enough to know that things could
have ended very differently indeed.
2 comments:
This is a lovely and creative short story. If I wasn't Mia's dad I'd say it was just simply brilliant!! But because I am I'll just say I think it is totally A M A Z I N G!!! x
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Bảng hiệu quảng cáo ngày nay không chỉ mang tính chất thông báo thông thường nữa mà còn đang đặt nặng về tính thẩm mĩ ngày càng cao, bảng hiệu đẹp, độc, lạ thì càng thu hút mọi người hơn và làm người ta nhớ lâu hơn.
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