'Dirty Girls'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Well, Elsie just convinced a dying slave to believe in Jesus. The woman was reluctant, because,
"You don't mean _dat_, Miss Elsie! You don't mean dat God will save poor ole Dinah, an' gib her hebben, an' all for nuffin?" she inquired, raising herself on her elbow in her eagerness.
I just noticed -- the slaves in this book keep referring to themselves in the third person like that. It's odd, and just about all of them do it.
The baby was so adorable today, and his silly parents think I'm doing them a favor. Want one!
I, for one, am enjoying the Hil take on these books. I don't have to read them and they are just so awful in a hilarious way.
seconded
According to Wikipedia, O Henry wrote an Elsie parody story.
And here is a link to the Elsie of O Henry: [link]
I am so mean, but he is SO cute! [link]
So, Elsie has just cried herself into some sort of sickness because her father won't kiss or hug her until she promises to submit entirely to his will. (This is STILL about her not reading the novel on a Sunday. And a bunch of the adults in the book have backed her up on this.)
He says he doesn't want a daughter with these "perverse" religious ideas, because if she won't read a novel on a Sunday when she's eight, that might mean she won't go to a ball or the opera when she's older, and he doesn't want a child who won't go to a ball or the opera.
I'm looking forward to reading the O'Henry parody when I get home from work.
The past 30 pages or so have been Elsie's father taking away one thing after another and then telling her that she'll get it all back if she agrees that she will always obey him. She (tearfully, of course) responses that she will always obey him unless he tells her to break a commandment, and he says that's not good enough. This same scene has played out like five times already.