Fiction by Annie Proulx: “Was it not his responsibility to save the woman who had saved him?”
On the annual occasion of an all-day drunk , he dragged out the piteous litany of his life: he had been pitched onto a British ship as a midshipman in his tenth year “as an unwanted pup-dog is tied to a sapling in the woods and left to be torn apart by wild beasts.” Even his appointment had come about only because his paternal grandfather, old Nicolaus Duke, of the venerable Boston lumber company Duke & Sons, wrote to the more ancient Dred-Peacock and begged the favor of a recommendation.
Missus Brandon takes it to him and brings back the dishes.” She came closer and whispered, “But I have to lock away the leftover joint as he strives for meat.” “I hope we will have a solution to the problem before long. I met with Dr. Hudson myself this morning. Would you be so good as to bring tea into the parlor while I discuss the doctor’s findings with Mistress Brandon?” “My dear,” he said to Posey Brandon, waving his hand over his saucer of steaming pudding. “I spoke with Dr.
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