The Gambler Grimoire by BR Kingsolver EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Amovement to my left caught my eye. Above me, a man standing in a
second-story corner window was looking down on my mini-circus. He
was middle-aged, with dark hair and a beard, and wearing a tweed jacket. He
didn’t smile or frown. He could have been the poster boy for an Oxford don. I
chuckled to myself, wondering what the uniform for female faculty entailed.
I paid the taxi driver and crawled out onto the sidewalk. A four-hour
plane ride to Pittsburgh, followed by the hour-long taxi ride to Wicklow, had
left me stiff. The driver pulled my bags from the trunk and set them down. I
gripped my purse and computer bag. At that point, two porters emerged from
the building.
“Dr. Robinson?” one asked.
“Yes, I’m Dr. Robinson.”
“This way, ma’am. The stuff you shipped ahead arrived yesterday.”
I looked up, and up, at the three-story Gothic Revival building in front of
me. I had dreamed about working on that campus, teaching there, and my
dream had come through.
I followed the porters up the broad front steps with a metal railing in the
middle, then through a high, pointed archway. A long, wide, paved
breezeway open to the sky ended at another arched opening. Doors were
regularly spaced off the open arcade on both sides. There weren’t any
windows on any level.
To my surprise, the porters immediately turned right through the first of
two doorways next to each other. A small brass plaque—shiny and new—on
the open door read, ‘Savanna Robinson, PhD.’
A short hallway with a table on one side and a wardrobe on the other led
to a fairly spacious room—as large as my whole apartment in Oakland. It was
furnished with heavy wood-and-leather couches and chairs, and two heavy
coffee tables. One wall was covered with empty built-in bookshelves that
ended at a window overlooking the street where the taxi had let me off. In
front of the built-in bookshelves sat the boxes I had shipped from the West
Coast. My books, tools, clothing, and the rest of my few personal effects.
Next to the window, a massive stone fireplace covered half of that wall.
The other walls were covered in deep red wallpaper above walnut
wainscotting. All of the trim around the doors and windows, the crown
molding, and the baseboard were a deep, rich walnut color.
The room would have been very dark, except the wall opposite the
entrance hallway was almost all glass, with a view to the outside. That was
south, I realized. I could plant herbs and flowers along the windows.
Along the wall to my left, there were three doors. The porters came out of
the middle one, handed me a set of keys, bade me good day, and left. I
wandered over to the room they had come out of and found a bedroom with
an attached bathroom. The claw-foot tub looked inviting, but my first thought
was whether there would be enough hot water to fill it. In Oakland, I had
learned to shower very quickly.
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