In Need of a Good Wife
“Daniel said, as he slurped his coffee in the most intolerable way.“Hmm?” Rowena did not turn to face him from where she stood at the sink scrubbing a pot. Lately she was finding it hard to remember what it was she had liked about him that first day in his wagon. Daniel sat in the center of the table, with two boys on either side of him. The quietest part of the day came during the five minutes it took the children to bolt their porridge. It was like the momentary stillness surrounding a company... of soldiers as they reload their rifles.“Leave off, Ully,” Dag said. He kicked the side of his chair with a thud.“That’s enough now, Ully,” Daniel said.“Pa, she won’t stop,” said Gustav.Rowena took a beleaguered breath and glanced back at them. Ully sat cross-legged under the table, untying each of her brothers’ boots. Rowena couldn’t decide what was worse—that these illiterates covered with mange existed at all, or that the house’s dirt floor forced them to keep their boots on morning, noon, and night.Daniel continued.MoreLess
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