Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry

Author:Sebastian Barry
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Europe, Older women, Psychological fiction, Aunts, Aged women, Fiction, Literary, Wicklow (Ireland), Ireland, Farm life, General, Domestic fiction, History
ISBN: 9780142002872
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2003-04-29T07:19:01+00:00

When he is gone, I sit there alone. ‘My father loves me.’ He loves his father, more than life, I am thinking. It is right and meet that a child should love his father so. A litany of love, but something is bothering, bothering me.

It is another story entirely, also a true one. When my father was a sergeant in the police force, he succeeded in arresting a man who had assaulted a little girl on Kingstown Pier. For this he was awarded two shillings by his superintendent. He had other money awards in his day, one of them for helping in the rescue of sailors off a stricken ship in Dublin Bay. That was easy to explain to us, three girls. But the other award was not so straightforward. Maud, being the eldest, was told the full story, and she, being our loyal sister, gave us all the details later in our beds. We were gripped and horrified. Assaulted, the very word - suggesting a sort of leaping. I could see that wolfish man in my mind’s eye, vaulting through the air with bared teeth.

I know the little girl has not been assaulted in that sense by her brother. Her brother is only small. She was instructing him in the game, if anything. But if it is a secret game, as it seemed, how did they come to begin to play it?

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