The Rising of Bella Casey (2013)
“Bella had often heard marital disharmony in other houses late at night like this; now it seemed, despite her best efforts, the Beavers were at the one level with their neighbours. Susan, flitting about in her chemise was trying to quieten Valentine and Baby John, both wide-eyed at the bloody spectacle. Babsie hadn’t even had a chance to take off her coat. Armed with a bottle of iodine, she was tending Bella’s bleeding brow. Bella’s fissured tooth throbbed, but there was nothing Babsie could do ...for that. James set to and rebuilt the fire in the grate. Jack, meanwhile, was out in the yard, dishing out some stern words to Nick who had come to and sat cowed in a corner like a schoolroom dunce.
‘You’ll have no more gyp from him tonight,’ Jack said when he came back in. ‘Leave him out there till he sobers up.’ What would the neighbours make of that? Nick corralled in the yard with his birds until morning.‘This is what he’s reduced you to, Bella,’ Jack said, and with those doubtful words of benediction, he left her to the disarray.‘Maybe he needs spectacles,’ Susan said as she viewed her father through the window of the scullery.MoreLess
‘You’ll have no more gyp from him tonight,’ Jack said when he came back in. ‘Leave him out there till he sobers up.’ What would the neighbours make of that? Nick corralled in the yard with his birds until morning.‘This is what he’s reduced you to, Bella,’ Jack said, and with those doubtful words of benediction, he left her to the disarray.‘Maybe he needs spectacles,’ Susan said as she viewed her father through the window of the scullery.MoreLess
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