According to wikipedia, she ends up marrying her father's friend.
Gross.
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
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Daisy Jane - Mar 13, 2009 2:43:01 pm PDT #3497 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Connie Neil - Mar 13, 2009 2:53:56 pm PDT #3498 of 30000
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Good God, there's a whole series of those books, including the run from Elsie's Girlhood, through her children, through Elsie's Widowhood.
edit: Girlhood, Womanhood, Motherhood, Children, Widowhood, and Grandmother Elsie. I don't want to think what's in the Womanhood volume.
Calli - Mar 13, 2009 2:51:48 pm PDT #3499 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
In completely unrelated news, Trader Joe's dark chocolate covered edamame are delicious. I'm having some people over tonight and bought them for snacks. My guests had better arrive in a timely fashion, or they'll be SOL.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 2:58:04 pm PDT #3500 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Whoa. He hasn't punished her physically yet. But when he thinks she's lied to him, he's about to whip her with a riding crop. (She's saved at the last moment, by his younger sister, who's a few years older than Elsie, telling him that Elsie was telling the truth.)
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 2:58:54 pm PDT #3501 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
(This book, as well as nearly all the sequels, are up at Project Gutenberg, in case anyone else wants to experience the horror for themselves.)
Daisy Jane - Mar 13, 2009 2:59:56 pm PDT #3502 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Feh. At this point I think if he had whipped her she would have felt she deserved it because she should have been more articulate with the truth or maybe because she lied in the past.
I hate to blame the victim, but dude.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 3:01:40 pm PDT #3503 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Three times so far, he's punished her unjustly, or came very close to it, and then within a day promised her that he would be less stern and frightening. And every time, she responds that she loves him.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 3:03:47 pm PDT #3504 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Ew. A passage that begins with
Mr. Dinsmore sat there a long time with his little daughter on his knee, caressing her more tenderly than ever before;
ends with him finding a locket that she always wears tucked under her dress.
Daisy Jane - Mar 13, 2009 3:05:45 pm PDT #3505 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Does anyone who reads these, at least modern humans who read these, come out with anything other than "EEWWWW! GROSS! SICK! TWISTED! WRONG!"?
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 3:06:39 pm PDT #3506 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yes. These people: [link]