历年诺贝尔文学奖书名 诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第13章Part4

诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第13章Part4  

But she knew their names. She knew
and covered her ears with her fists to keep from hearingthem e from his mouth.
Janey heated some milk and poured it in a bowl next to a plate of cornbread. After some coaxing
Baby Suggs came to the table and sat down. She crumbled the bread into the hot milk anddiscovered she was hungrier than she had ever been in her life and that was saying something.
"They going to miss this?""No
" said Janey. "Eat all you want; it's ours.""Anybody else live here?""Just me. Mr. Woodruff
he does the outside chores. He es by o
three days a week.""Just you o?""Yes
ma'am. I do the cooking and washing.""Maybe your people know of somebody looking for help.""I be sure to ask
but I know they take women at the slaughterhouse.""Doing what?""I don't know.""Something men don't want to do
I reckon.""My cousin say you get all the meat you want
plus enty-five cents the hour. She make summer sausage."Baby Suggs lifted her hand to the top of her head. Money? Money? They would pay her moneyevery single day? Money?
"Where is this here slaughterhouse?" she asked.
Before Janey could answer
the Bodwins came in to the kitchen with a grinning Mr. Garner niably brother and sister
both dressed in gray with faces too young for their snow-white hair."Did you give her anything to eat
Janey?" asked the brother.