- It's a marvellous day for a wedding, don't you think?
- Undoubtedly! Birds fly freely, the sun rises high and only the most beautiful flowers are blooming.
- The handsome groom is already at the altar, André Rosewood, one of the best surgeons that history has ever known. He comes from the best lineages in France, his family must own many lands at their name ...
- And yet he is marrying a woman from London at the age of 19? There really must be love in his heart to make that decision. Who is the lucky girlfriend?
- His fiancée and now wife, Camilla Jekyll, is a woman like few others ...
- Uh? Is something bad happening to her?
- Oh no! Is not that! Mr. Jekyll has an unrivalled beauty and bearing, yet even with those valuable qualities, few would dare to speak to such an extraordinary person! Imagine, a woman with a strange love for science.
- I understand, an undesirable career for a lady of her class.
- For a long time, it was considered the rotten apple of the Jekyll family, did you know?
- The Jekyll's? A family full of artists and their daughter a "want to be scientist"? Hah! Of course, that was to be expected.
- That girl was lucky that young Rosewood fixed his eyes on her.
- "Finding a woman whose beauty not only shines in her appearance but also in her intellect, is an offer that no gentleman with a brain should miss" Those were the groom's vows, weren't they?
- Ah, so romantic! If only my husband spoke to me like this ...
- Do not be so hasty! That these types of marriages are never what they appear. Love is the last thing that comes together today when two great families are involved. Brittany and France have their eyes on today's wedding.
- A little of faith chemist and a doctor? They will definitely be a marriage that will give enough gossip for a good time.
St. James Hospital Nursing Journal.
June 25, 1850 Birth Record #56
Delivery approached by nurse Montour Juliet at the mother's home.
- Today at 17:05 PM I arrived at the Rosewood home; since the mother started complaining of strong contractions. At 6:46 p.m. She has given birth to a girl named Emilie. The little girl is in perfect health and has the same blue eyes as her mother and father, there is no doubt that she will become an exemplary lady.
It is a pity that the first-born of the couple was not a boy, however, with the money and the reputation of the family I'm sure that the baby will live in the best possible way.
Letter from Ms. Rosewood to Ms. Sallow.
Through this letter I would like to thank you for your willingness to agree to be my daughter's new governess, Ms. Emilie Rosewood. It seems correct to me that at five years of age she begins her lessons in manners, literature and music (Since, in recent months I have noticed the interest that the girl has taken in the piano at the main room). Payment will be scheduled the following Tuesday at tea time at the following address: xxx-xxx-xxx.
Please arrive on time.
Atte. Ms. Camilla Rosewood.
Ms. Rosalie Pryor's Diary.
December 18, 1858. There're only a few days left until the Rosewood family's New Year's Eve party. As is the custom of my work, I have to prepare the rest of the servants to give a party worth remembering for our future guests, which, thanks to Ms. Emilie, it won't be difficult to achieve this year.
The young woman is slowly becoming an admirable lady, even at her young age she has proven to be a prodigy for music. I heard her play in the main hall every time I swept around; her melodies are so sweet that my day is brightened by just hearing a few of her notes.
I'm sure she'll be the centre of attention when she performed at the party wearing this gorgeous dress that I picked up with the tailor today. That girl gives so much light to this house, and when the news will be out, I'm sure that that light will multiply! Being that, on Christmas Eve Mrs. Rosewood will reveal to her daughter and guests that she's expecting another baby!
This is supposed to be a secret behind closed doors until the festivities hit, but I couldn't help but hear the news as I was blowing out the candles in the main hall; her bedroom door was ajar so I clearly heard the talk she had with Mr. Rosewood that night. It's fortunate that they have not discovered me since if they had, I would surely not have this job anymore.
December 26, 1858. We are all tired after such a party. The guests loved the presentation of Ms. Emilie and they were also overjoyed for Mrs. Rosewood's future baby. Obviously, we don't know the gender of the next new-born, but the family is praying that God will bless them with a strong and healthy boy who can carry the family name.
St. James Hospital Nursing Journal.
March 16, 1859 Birth Record # 178
Delivery approached by nurse Montour Juliet at the mother's home.
-17:44 God bless me because he knows that I need him now, today, I have brought a demon to our world.
It was 6:24 PM when I received the news that Mrs. Rosewood had gone into labour again. I attended the birth of his first daughter so I happily offered to receive the second.
The entire delivery had passed normally until moments before the baby was born when the mother suffered a slight haemorrhage that fortunately I managed to stop in time.
Now, their son, the man they had wanted so much... He was born enjoying excellent health and his parents baptized him as Henry, however, when he opened his eyes, my God! God save the hour I saw those eyes!
His left eye was a beautiful blue, just like his sister and parents ... But the right, that damn eye, was an orange hue almost reaching red. An inhuman colour on a new-born baby's face.
His parents seemed surprised and conflicted at the same time that a touch of curiosity showed on their faces. They tried to explain some of their genetic theories to me to try to reassure me since I was pale with fear.
Of course, that I don't get fooled by their absurd "science" quackery, I was raised under the teaching of God and I know enough diseases to know what is his works or what is not.
I am writing this once I was safely in my office, tomorrow I hope I can contact the local father so that he can get rid of that child! - no, of that thing!
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Mirror Shards
Historical Fiction1857, the Rosewood family is the perfect role model for society. They are wealthy, cultured and with an excellent reputation. However, his second, Henry Rosewood, is not even the shadow of his parents. Rebellious, distracted and with a strange genet...
