The Favourite Child
“Bella kept careful records and discovered that the first 100 or so patients had sustained between them over 500 pregnancies. One woman alone had endured eighteen, including four dead infants, three miscarriages and three children described as imbeciles. Another with four living children had lost an equal number of stillborn babies, plus several miscarriages. It was a sorry state of affairs and these pitiful stories regularly reduced her to tears.
Bella’s regulars were more hardened and would stand on their doorsteps in their crossover pinnies to ‘do a bit of camping’ as they called it. There was nothing they liked better than to exchange tidbits of gossip they’d picked up queuing on the stairs at the clinic. They’d clip their children round the ears for ‘marlicking about’, complain over being bone weary and powfagged after a long day at the mill, usually followed by several more hours cleaning and cooking at home for their large families and yet find the energy to have a good chin-wag... well into the late evening.MoreLess
Bella’s regulars were more hardened and would stand on their doorsteps in their crossover pinnies to ‘do a bit of camping’ as they called it. There was nothing they liked better than to exchange tidbits of gossip they’d picked up queuing on the stairs at the clinic. They’d clip their children round the ears for ‘marlicking about’, complain over being bone weary and powfagged after a long day at the mill, usually followed by several more hours cleaning and cooking at home for their large families and yet find the energy to have a good chin-wag... well into the late evening.MoreLess
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