Heroes And Villains
“‘They jump from one thing to the next like kids jumping stepping stones and so they go on until they fall in the water.’ ‘Does Jewel never think, although he is educated?’ ‘Sometimes he does,’ said Mrs Green. She was taking in the seams of an embroidered shirt so that Marianne would have something to wear. She used needles from a little case she had carefully kept with her since one wild night when she was eighteen years old and she saw her home burning and her husband’s head shot clean from hi...s shoulders. Since her husband had been an old man who often beat her and demanded unnatural practices in bed, she had then said: ‘Take me with you’ to some horseman as he reloaded his rifle and he lifted her up behind his saddle and subsequently gave her a number of children until another night attack, from which he never returned. And this was how Mrs Green first arrived in the tribe.
‘Sometimes Jewel thinks but usually he gets the Doctor to do his thinking for him.’ A cold, wet wind blew in through the glassless window.MoreLess
‘Sometimes Jewel thinks but usually he gets the Doctor to do his thinking for him.’ A cold, wet wind blew in through the glassless window.MoreLess
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