Ellen O'Hara was thirty-two years old, and, according to the standards of her day, she was a middle-aged woman, one who had borne six children and bur ...
As always, she wondered how her loud, insensitive father had managed to marry a woman like her mother, for never were two people further apart in birt ...
Then, brightening, in anticipation of one of his practical jokes: Come daughter, let's go tell Pork that instead of buying Dilcey, I've sold him to Jo ...
If I didn't do so much for those trashy Slatterys that they'd have to pay money for elsewhere, fumed Gerald, they'd be willing to sell me their misera ...