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related. Had not God himself in the Bible said that Mary was the wife of Joseph? Not that she was Mrs.
Joseph? Walpurga had no intention at all of changing her name when she married.
Margaretha was continuing. "They are good jobs, in the post office.Jobs that Germans can do. Just to
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read the addresses. It is easier for us to read the up-time handwriting than for the up-timers to read ours.
To sort the mail, take the mail to where it goes. These can be done by people who do not have the
strength for the mines or making the roads. We need to always know when there is a vacancy.Before
they put up the hiring notice.To make sure that the best people are ready to apply. These are extremely
fine jobs." She paused. "And he meets what Pastor Kastenmayer asked for. He is not a constant
drunkard, not a brawler, not a lazy lout who will expect his wife to support him."
"He does not have a house. He does not even have a 'trailer.' He lives in the barracks for the army. He
does not earn enough to support children." Walpurga wasn't even nearly finished with her litany of Lew
Jenkins's defects as a potential husband.
Rahel Dornheimer looked up, motioned with her hand, and asked, "Is he handsome? Is he kind of man
who attracts women? Who has seen him?"
"He is not handsome. Not hideous; not misshapen or a monster.But odd looking. His lower face is
scarred the skin." That was Maria Krause. The whole table chimed in.
"Is he young?How old?"
"Thirty years, maybe.It is hard to tell."
Rahel asked, "Would he be kind?"
"Who can tell, with a man?"
September, 1634
"They want me to make this marriage." Sabina Ottmar looked at the other woman, who was nursing a
baby daughter. "I don't want to make you unhappy, my lady. I don't want to make Herr Pflaum angry
that I ask you. But I think that you, perhaps, would know."
Grantville was very like Keilhau in one way. People gossiped.
Staci Ann Beckworth, now very respectable and, by marriage, Lutheran, wife and mother, church
member in good standing, looked down at her baby, then up.
"I was a fool when I was living with Lew, okay? I was wearing black leather mini-skirts and spiking my
purple-dyed hair with mousse."
Sabina looked bewildered. Staci Ann detached the baby she was pretty well done anyway and
handed her over to the other woman with a burp rag."Just a minute."
She went into the back of the house and returned with a little book. "It's my old album. I don't know
why Mom kept this." She opened so Sabina could look."Mini-skirts; that's purple dye; that's flourescent
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green dye in this one. And overweight. Ye gods, I was at my low point. I'd mostly gotten rid of this by
the first time I met you." She took the pictures and left the room again. To put it back, Sabina guessed.
"That was me, then." Staci Ann looked up. "I guess, to you, I looked like a little whore. But I wasn't.
Lew was the only one, beforeArnold ." She chewed nervously on a fingernail. "Lew had me at my worst,
see. And, yeah, he was kind.Not just that he didn't hit me. He didn't even yell at me, no matter what
stupid thing I tried. He'd make a joke of it. Or just go outdoors. There's no mean streak in him."
She sighed. "Don't get me wrong. Me being me, I'm better off withArnold .For Mom and Dad and the
farm and all that. Mom despised Lew. But if it hadn't been for the Ring of Fire for the kind of kid I was
then, I could have done a lot worse, and that's the truth."
"I am barren," Sabina said nervously. "I can't have children."
"Well," Staci Ann answered, "neither can Lew. His mom didn't believe in vaccinations, the stupid cow.
Mumps.Junior year of high school. And a gossip in the doctor's office told someone, so it got out. She
got fired, but it didn't do Lew any good, by then. Not the way guys that age are. 'Little Lewie lost his
balls.' That's why he dropped out, I think, the things they said to him. He's smart enough that he could
have finished, God knows."
April, 1635
Sabina looked at the line of confirmands. In an hour, she would be a married woman. With a cottage on
the Booths' farm, newly built, where she would live.Where they would live when he was on leave. She
had no dreams. She was marrying this man because it had been arranged for her. He was not being
confirmed because she had charmed him into it. He was being confirmed because Staci Ann Beckworth [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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related. Had not God himself in the Bible said that Mary was the wife of Joseph? Not that she was Mrs.
Joseph? Walpurga had no intention at all of changing her name when she married.
Margaretha was continuing. "They are good jobs, in the post office.Jobs that Germans can do. Just to
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read the addresses. It is easier for us to read the up-time handwriting than for the up-timers to read ours.
To sort the mail, take the mail to where it goes. These can be done by people who do not have the
strength for the mines or making the roads. We need to always know when there is a vacancy.Before
they put up the hiring notice.To make sure that the best people are ready to apply. These are extremely
fine jobs." She paused. "And he meets what Pastor Kastenmayer asked for. He is not a constant
drunkard, not a brawler, not a lazy lout who will expect his wife to support him."
"He does not have a house. He does not even have a 'trailer.' He lives in the barracks for the army. He
does not earn enough to support children." Walpurga wasn't even nearly finished with her litany of Lew
Jenkins's defects as a potential husband.
Rahel Dornheimer looked up, motioned with her hand, and asked, "Is he handsome? Is he kind of man
who attracts women? Who has seen him?"
"He is not handsome. Not hideous; not misshapen or a monster.But odd looking. His lower face is
scarred the skin." That was Maria Krause. The whole table chimed in.
"Is he young?How old?"
"Thirty years, maybe.It is hard to tell."
Rahel asked, "Would he be kind?"
"Who can tell, with a man?"
September, 1634
"They want me to make this marriage." Sabina Ottmar looked at the other woman, who was nursing a
baby daughter. "I don't want to make you unhappy, my lady. I don't want to make Herr Pflaum angry
that I ask you. But I think that you, perhaps, would know."
Grantville was very like Keilhau in one way. People gossiped.
Staci Ann Beckworth, now very respectable and, by marriage, Lutheran, wife and mother, church
member in good standing, looked down at her baby, then up.
"I was a fool when I was living with Lew, okay? I was wearing black leather mini-skirts and spiking my
purple-dyed hair with mousse."
Sabina looked bewildered. Staci Ann detached the baby she was pretty well done anyway and
handed her over to the other woman with a burp rag."Just a minute."
She went into the back of the house and returned with a little book. "It's my old album. I don't know
why Mom kept this." She opened so Sabina could look."Mini-skirts; that's purple dye; that's flourescent
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green dye in this one. And overweight. Ye gods, I was at my low point. I'd mostly gotten rid of this by
the first time I met you." She took the pictures and left the room again. To put it back, Sabina guessed.
"That was me, then." Staci Ann looked up. "I guess, to you, I looked like a little whore. But I wasn't.
Lew was the only one, beforeArnold ." She chewed nervously on a fingernail. "Lew had me at my worst,
see. And, yeah, he was kind.Not just that he didn't hit me. He didn't even yell at me, no matter what
stupid thing I tried. He'd make a joke of it. Or just go outdoors. There's no mean streak in him."
She sighed. "Don't get me wrong. Me being me, I'm better off withArnold .For Mom and Dad and the
farm and all that. Mom despised Lew. But if it hadn't been for the Ring of Fire for the kind of kid I was
then, I could have done a lot worse, and that's the truth."
"I am barren," Sabina said nervously. "I can't have children."
"Well," Staci Ann answered, "neither can Lew. His mom didn't believe in vaccinations, the stupid cow.
Mumps.Junior year of high school. And a gossip in the doctor's office told someone, so it got out. She
got fired, but it didn't do Lew any good, by then. Not the way guys that age are. 'Little Lewie lost his
balls.' That's why he dropped out, I think, the things they said to him. He's smart enough that he could
have finished, God knows."
April, 1635
Sabina looked at the line of confirmands. In an hour, she would be a married woman. With a cottage on
the Booths' farm, newly built, where she would live.Where they would live when he was on leave. She
had no dreams. She was marrying this man because it had been arranged for her. He was not being
confirmed because she had charmed him into it. He was being confirmed because Staci Ann Beckworth [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]