Since First I Saw Your Face: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him. Emma Donoghue
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wonder,” I tell her. “The womb is our Waterloo.”
That makes her laugh. “Is that why you’ve never gone to war, Ellen?”
Spinsterhood has more than that to recommend it.
Over breakfast Minnie opens her children’s letters. They’re an accomplished, verbose crew, churning out a weekly magazine on their father’s sermon paper. “At our house,” she explains, “one must ask for the toast in rhyme.”
I smile, as if I find these family habits charming.
I can tell she’s touched that I’ve got the six children straight already. The elder boys, away at school: Martin, at eleven, in a fever of excitement about the Peruvian Indians; Arthur, her earnest favourite, who toils over his writing till the sweat breaks out in drops. The four youngers, at home with Minnie’s mother and their nurse: Nellie the bossy prankster; Maggie the shy one, whose stories pile catastrophe on catastrophe; little Fred, five, and (just eleven months) Hugh. Baby’s got two teeth now, and Fred’s still afraid of the tiger skins in the hall,
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