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Updated: June 14, 2025
In a word, after a series of whippings, confinements, and scoldings, after compelling him either to eat flesh on Friday, or fast all day without any other food, Parson Dilman, out of sheer shame, gave him up, and confessed himself vanquished by the Catholic child.
To treat the married vagabond as not responsible, is only to increase his irresponsibility. "One man I know who has done hardly a stroke of work for years," says Mrs. Bosanquet; "during his wife's periodical confinements he goes off on the tramp, leaving her to take her chance of charity coming to the rescue, and returns when she can get to work again.
Your beauty, to my surprise, has been preserved to you, notwithstanding your numerous confinements and the fatigues of your position. Profit by the present juncture, and do not let the chance slip. You must tell him plainly that you have been marquise long enough, and that the moment has come at last for you to have the 'imperiale', and sign your name in proper style."
The country people saw his study full of books and other strange things which gave to his successes a coloring of magic. Like his father and grandfather before him, he was celebrated for his skill in confinements and miscarriages.
His wife, who had grown old in her countless confinements, exhausted by the tiresome fidelity and virtue of the master, was no longer anything but the companion who gave the responses when he prayed his rosaries and Trisagia at night.
Since three o'clock on that same morning she had attended three confinements, so no wonder she was tired. She said that one of her cases was utterly unprovided with anything needful as the father was out of work, although on the occasion of a previous confinement they had all they wanted.
I never got a chance to count them, for they were nearly all small, and shy as piccaninnies, and used to run and hide when anybody came. They were mostly nearly as black as piccaninnies too. She must have averaged a baby a-year for years and God only knows how she got over her confinements! Once, they said, she only had a black gin with her.
Except for his wife's confinements there had never been a major operation in the family, and to him surgery was at once a miracle and an abomination of fear.
The latter of these is differently dated in the Letters to the Stranger, the end of April being given, unless, indeed, there were two confinements close together, which is hardly probable. What is most likely is, that Werdet has confused two things, the story of the lock of hair, properly belonging to 1836, and the making of the stick, which belongs to 1834. Here is his narration:
I hear from instructors in physical training, both in the United States and in England, of excessively tedious and painful confinements among their fellows two or three cases in each instance only, but this within the knowledge of a single individual among his friends. I have also several such reports from the circus perhaps exceptions.
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