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978-0-521-70585-1 - The Girl at the Window

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The Girl at the Window

Antoinette Moses
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Contents
Chapter 1 Don’t take my baby! 6

Chapter 2 We love this house 11
Chapter 3 This is my house 16
Chapter 4 Something’s happening! 20
Chapter 5 Sammy is my baby 24
Chapter 6 Fire! 26
Chapter 7 I can leave now 28
Chapter 8 We’re waiting for you 30

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People in the story
Grace is a girl in 1815, and then a

girl in a picture.
Sue is a young mother in 2001.
Sammy is Sue’s baby girl.
Tommy is Grace’s boyfriend.
Mary is Grace and Tommy’s baby.

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Chapter 1 Don’t take my baby!
Grace: 1815
‘Tommy! Goodbye. I love you!’

Tommy’s going away. He’s sixteen and he’s a soldier. He’s
going to fight Napoleon.
I’m sad without him. But he’s going to come home to me.
And we’re going to marry and live here. We’re going to be
very happy.
* * *
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My name is Grace and I live in Norfolk. I’m sitting at the

window and I’m waiting. Waiting for Tommy.
I know a song. It’s a happy song and I like singing it. I’m
singing it to my baby. My baby’s inside me, but she can
hear me. I know that. I know she’s a girl. We’re waiting for
Tommy.
‘Your father’s going to come home, Mary.’ I call her
Mary. I look out of the window. In my head I see him. I see
Tommy and he’s looking at me. He has a red jacket and he
looks very young. My Tommy. I sing, ‘My Tommy’s coming
home to me.’

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* * *
It’s nine months now and the women are here. Mary is
coming. The women are in front of my bed.
‘Good girl, Grace,’ they say. Then they say, ‘And again.
And again. That’s it.’
And out you come, Mary. You’re very, very small. And
you’re red and beautiful, and I love you. Oh, I love you!

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Then the women say, ‘This is a beautiful baby. We’re

going to find a good home for her.’
‘But Mary’s my baby,’ I say.
‘You’re a bad girl, Grace,’ the women say. ‘The baby
doesn’t have a father.’
‘Tommy’s the father,’ I say. ‘Tommy’s going to marry me.’
‘Tommy’s dead,’ they say, ‘and you’re not married. The
baby comes with us.’
‘NO! Where are you going? What are you doing? That’s
my baby. You can’t take my baby away! Tommy’s coming
home. He’s going to marry me. Mary! MARY! Where’s my
baby? I want my baby!’
* * *

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This is my house. I’m waiting for my baby. People come

and people go. People live here and people die here. But I’m
always here. I’m waiting for my baby.
* * *
I can hear a baby now.
‘Come to Grace, little one. Come to Grace. Grace is
waiting for you.’
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Cambridge University Press

978-0-521-70585-1 - The Girl at the Window

Cambridge English Readers

Series editor: Philip Prowse

The Girl at the Window

© Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org

cambridge university press

Cambridge University Press

© Cambridge University Press 2007

This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception

First published 2007

Printed in India by Thomson Press (India) Limited

Illustrations by Debbie Hinks

A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-0-521-70585-1 paperback

No character in this work is based on any person living or dead.

© Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org

Chapter 1 Don’t take my baby! 6

© Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org

People in the story

Grace is a girl in 1815, and then a

Sue is a young mother in 2001.

Sammy is Sue’s baby girl.

Tommy is Grace’s boyfriend.

Mary is Grace and Tommy’s baby.

© Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org

Places in the story

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Chapter 1 Don’t take my baby!

‘Tommy! Goodbye. I love you!’

© Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org

My name is Grace and I live in Norfolk. I’m sitting at the

© Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org

© Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org

Then the women say, ‘This is a beautiful baby. We’re

© Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org

This is my house. I’m waiting for my baby. People come

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