'It's
hoodwinking you any more, miss, or letting your eyes closed Very likely it was Jackie. L and he had a reason, because you know It"" father had been?
He had just come back in bed with Jackie's mother.
Get that into : Listen!" He now caught her face between "com and held it stiffly as he stared into her eyes. IP" h J bn in bed with Jackie's comThat's where he often went, and the boy had be2"..."...r.
She supplied men when her poor man were' droving.
And all Jackie does is try to them off. He's set fire to haystacks, he's left (ltdLike he's done all kinds to frigten men off tJM.
But his mother is a whore. Do you know what a whore is? You don't know what a whore i do you? A whore is a loose woman who'll let sa man go with her for money, never for love, just l money. And your father was a rotten man.
Ask MamI here. Your poor mother went through it for years, but she had to put a face on it, to bring you all up re spectable like, not looked down on as the daughter ofi a woman-chaser." be Now Rosie was struggling in his grasp, but he did not let go of her. He was now holding her hands as I he said 'allyou're going to sit there and come to life, i come out of the little girl. I thought you had whe you took up with fancy Mr Golding. But even that didn't bring you into reality. Well, now you're in it Your father was a stinker in every possible way. And I'll tell you something else. Charlie Fenwick, the coalman there, he wasn't delivering this morning, not to your house, 'cos the bills haven't been paid for bar months and months. Oh! That's opened your eyes i more than the immorality has done. You can't believe 1 it can you? He owes everybody in the town. He's;
gambled and whored for years. Your grandfather paid bar his debts just because of your mother. Then there was a point when he, too, had to stop. He appeared to be a jolly man, didn't he, your grandfather? Well, let roe tell you, he had lived under a cover for years, just to preserve something called class respectability. Now greater-than now, my girl, you mention Jackie Wallace's name an all this will come out, and you'll have to live undr i And do you think your fiance, Mr Golding, will big enough to take it? He's in the Civil Servie, isn"
he? the Diplomatic side, and they're a very snooty lot they are. They don't like scandals.
They may hav
bar bar Tf Obsession 77 "iij themselves h,, ti
ieTre like your wen concealed . wth anyth1 of them be "g rather than have their class s
and sghteningup,
remember that n " e" and as t trying to k lad has 011 awae of tllgs frcm his Yet, S but hes a goo is the of es in Wallace.
He A qulet years diserve her. And that tolceepitfro11101111 and has her
visitors father'just by to Oh yes. he did managed it with a lot leant back agt i bement arm went arSo of ttle and
cold, right to the v dg g her close; but @.
never be wa vely heart of her she felt 1 she did be he eHeve
H feeling she had had expla*ind that old f And now she reca some time about her bar that made he w often her mother water she d
. passed her i11the tilne that wallooked at her. Sheh 1 and had laughed for her hat wasrt ought she must be miTffT5i part of her straight and she had bar 5t her father Mouse below her bs.
S suddenly she this oman ngaged herself from An-therine oson
nie's hold and said, p bett . to me, Robbie said, "All rihtp nce wil1 as the gate." He had ot adderi Isee you along as not there to greet me any more Because your father'8
l rom the carbide lamp picked out only the ay ahead as John pushed his bicycle slowly
" sr T T
1 * e was tired. He'd had a long day; he i from half-past eight when he took his
'yfSj" other person seemed to have either a ,"
cold or bronchitis, among the minor ail""
n there had been the business of Steel. ItUs on seven o'clock now and, following on
"*"'*r- .1 less-than -
" s afternoon, the ground was freezing l d llave to watch out; he had almost skidded E11 a little way back, and only his grabbing M1 had saved
hoodwinking you any more, miss, or letting your eyes closed Very likely it was Jackie. L and he had a reason, because you know It"" father had been?
He had just come back in bed with Jackie's mother.
Get that into : Listen!" He now caught her face between "com and held it stiffly as he stared into her eyes. IP" h J bn in bed with Jackie's comThat's where he often went, and the boy had be2"..."...r.
She supplied men when her poor man were' droving.
And all Jackie does is try to them off. He's set fire to haystacks, he's left (ltdLike he's done all kinds to frigten men off tJM.
But his mother is a whore. Do you know what a whore is? You don't know what a whore i do you? A whore is a loose woman who'll let sa man go with her for money, never for love, just l money. And your father was a rotten man.
Ask MamI here. Your poor mother went through it for years, but she had to put a face on it, to bring you all up re spectable like, not looked down on as the daughter ofi a woman-chaser." be Now Rosie was struggling in his grasp, but he did not let go of her. He was now holding her hands as I he said 'allyou're going to sit there and come to life, i come out of the little girl. I thought you had whe you took up with fancy Mr Golding. But even that didn't bring you into reality. Well, now you're in it Your father was a stinker in every possible way. And I'll tell you something else. Charlie Fenwick, the coalman there, he wasn't delivering this morning, not to your house, 'cos the bills haven't been paid for bar months and months. Oh! That's opened your eyes i more than the immorality has done. You can't believe 1 it can you? He owes everybody in the town. He's;
gambled and whored for years. Your grandfather paid bar his debts just because of your mother. Then there was a point when he, too, had to stop. He appeared to be a jolly man, didn't he, your grandfather? Well, let roe tell you, he had lived under a cover for years, just to preserve something called class respectability. Now greater-than now, my girl, you mention Jackie Wallace's name an all this will come out, and you'll have to live undr i And do you think your fiance, Mr Golding, will big enough to take it? He's in the Civil Servie, isn"
he? the Diplomatic side, and they're a very snooty lot they are. They don't like scandals.
They may hav
bar bar Tf Obsession 77 "iij themselves h,, ti
ieTre like your wen concealed . wth anyth1 of them be "g rather than have their class s
and sghteningup,
remember that n " e" and as t trying to k lad has 011 awae of tllgs frcm his Yet, S but hes a goo is the of es in Wallace.
He A qulet years diserve her. And that tolceepitfro11101111 and has her
visitors father'just by to Oh yes. he did managed it with a lot leant back agt i bement arm went arSo of ttle and
cold, right to the v dg g her close; but @.
never be wa vely heart of her she felt 1 she did be he eHeve
H feeling she had had expla*ind that old f And now she reca some time about her bar that made he w often her mother water she d
. passed her i11the tilne that wallooked at her. Sheh 1 and had laughed for her hat wasrt ought she must be miTffT5i part of her straight and she had bar 5t her father Mouse below her bs.
S suddenly she this oman ngaged herself from An-therine oson
nie's hold and said, p bett . to me, Robbie said, "All rihtp nce wil1 as the gate." He had ot adderi Isee you along as not there to greet me any more Because your father'8
l rom the carbide lamp picked out only the ay ahead as John pushed his bicycle slowly
" sr T T
1 * e was tired. He'd had a long day; he i from half-past eight when he took his
'yfSj" other person seemed to have either a ,"
cold or bronchitis, among the minor ail""
n there had been the business of Steel. ItUs on seven o'clock now and, following on
"*"'*r- .1 less-than -
" s afternoon, the ground was freezing l d llave to watch out; he had almost skidded E11 a little way back, and only his grabbing M1 had saved
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