Buffalo Girls (1990)
“She had been married three months; almost two months had passed since Blue’s visit. Once such news would have made her joyful; this time she received it with foreboding—a foreboding that had little to do with the question of who the father was. She felt convinced that T. Blue was the father, but was not ready to face the question of whether she would inform him of her conviction once the child was born.
The task that caused her to worry came before any question of choosing a father: before she ...needed to decide on a father, she had to get a living child. Her first child, a girl, had scarcely lived three hours; her second, a boy, had lived almost two months—she remembered all too well the year of grief that had followed his death. Without Blue, she herself would not have lived, she was convinced.
She had known women who had lost five or six children—it was common on the frontier—but could not imagine that she herself would want to survive such a load of grief.
When she told Doosie her news—she had already told her of her suspicions—Doosie at once tried to order her to bed.MoreLess
The task that caused her to worry came before any question of choosing a father: before she ...needed to decide on a father, she had to get a living child. Her first child, a girl, had scarcely lived three hours; her second, a boy, had lived almost two months—she remembered all too well the year of grief that had followed his death. Without Blue, she herself would not have lived, she was convinced.
She had known women who had lost five or six children—it was common on the frontier—but could not imagine that she herself would want to survive such a load of grief.
When she told Doosie her news—she had already told her of her suspicions—Doosie at once tried to order her to bed.MoreLess
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