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Updated: June 18, 2025
But I have to mind them brats all the day, and to be doing the bedrooms. And that's not the worst of it. 'What is the worst of it? 'I'm pretty nigh ashamed of myself. Yes, I am. And now Ruby burst out into tears. 'Because I wouldn't have John Crumb, I didn't mean to be a bad girl. Nor yet I won't. But what'll I do, if everybody turns against me? Aunt won't go on for ever in this way.
The lobster pulled off the candle stump and ate it up, wiped his feelers, and joined the party. The solids were thunder-cakes, egg-cracknels, boiled rice, daikon radishes and macaroni, lotus-root, taro, and side-dishes piled up with flies, worms, bugs and all kinds of bait for the small fry the finny brats that were to eat at the second table.
And they, all four, walked along through the wheat fields, having gradually relapsed into silence. Whenever they passed a fence they saw a countryman sitting on the stile, and a group of brats climbed up to stare at them, and every one rushed out into the road to see the "black" whore young Boitelle had brought home with him.
To tell the truth, their little tummies were a bit upset, because the food purveyor had had too strenuous a day to be regular in her rounds. "Can't you keep those squalling brats quiet?" Dinky-Dunk called out to me. It came like a thunder clap. It left me gasping, to think that he could call his own flesh and blood "squalling brats." And I was shocked and hurt, but I decided not to show it.
"Such a woman would answer my purpose as well as a woman with money, and she is an uncommonly tempting morsel. But then those infernal boys! I am not going to provide for another fellow's brats, and they can't have more than sixty pounds between them from the fund! No; I must not make an ass of myself, even for a pretty, clever woman, who has rather a hankering for myself, or I am much mistaken.
"Oh! these pernicious brats," cried the cure. "The workmen cannot go to their nonemete but the church is rife with them. Pray Heaven they have not found his late lordship; nay, I mind, I hid his lordship under a workmen's jerkin, and saints defend us! the jerkin has been moved."
The following are extracts from the letters: "Don't let the brats worry you but you had better not let anything happen to them." "Get a doctor if the pests are sick, because we don't want investigations." "If they keep on insisting on going back to their mother just tell them she is dead." "Caution them not to tell anything about themselves and if need be intimidate them.
A child I explained to the surly old men who barred my way had been confused with the Sioux slaves. If it were among their lodges, I was willing to pay well for its redemption. The old squaws, eying me distrustfully, averred I had come to steal one of their naked brats, who swarmed on my tracks with as tantalizing persistence as the vicious dogs.
I, whom you think such a flirt, I prefer a man of fifty to these brats. A man who will stick by me, who is devoted, who knows a woman is not to be picked up every day, and appreciates us. That is what I love you for, you old monster! and they fill up these avowals with little pettings and prettinesses and Faugh! they are as false as the bills on the Hotel de Ville."
The gipsy went on some distance farther obliged, however, to go very slowly; then at last he stopped. "This'll do for to-night," he said. "I'm about sick of all this nonsense, I can tell ye. We might ha' been at Brigslade to-night if it hadn't been for these brats." "Then do as I say," said Diana. "I'll manage it for you. Big Tony can carry one, and I the other."
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