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and Fellows of Harvard College.
A LIvE COAL IN THE SEA. Copyright ┬й1996 by Crosswicks, Ltd. All rights
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
L'Engle, Madeleine.
A live coal in the sea / Madeleine L'Engle ISBN 0-06-065286-1 (pbk.)
1. Family-United States-Fiction.1. Title. P83523.E55L58 1996 813'.54-dc20
96-4909
0001RRD10987
> >To my daughter Maria with thanks for her help
ONE
THE RECEPTION was held in the president's house. Camilla was seated in a
large
wing chair by the windows which looked out to a lake, around three sides of
which the college buildings were scattered, red brick, white clapboard, grey
stone, a casual architectural mix which had an unexpectedly pleasing effect.
Champagne was uncorked. Fruit punch and ginger ale were offered.
White-aproned
college students served hors d'oeuvres. The large room was filled with
Camilla's
colleagues, friends, students. Her family. One of the young girls, offering
her
a tray of smoked salmon, whispered, "We're really proud of you, Dr.
Dickinson."
The award ceremony had been held in Hiram B. Hingham Hall, Camilla standing
on
the stage to receive the Maria Mitchell Medal for distinguished work in
astronomy. For a modest little medal, she thought, the college was treating
it
like the Nobel Prize. She was, nevertheless, pleased.
Her children were there. Taxi had driven up from New York, warning her that
he
would have to leave early. He was the star of a soap opera and would be
taping
at seven in the morning. He stood beside the president of the college,
shorter,
Madeleine L'Engle>,
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