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ich remained unansweredEmily’s
letters were mostly about the evacuees. Three mothers with seven childrenall from
the Hackney area of Londonhad been billeted on the Tallis family. One of the
mothers had disgraced herself in the village pub and was now banned. Another
woman was a devout Catholic who walked four miles with her three children to the
local town for mass on Sunday. But Bettya Catholic herselfwas not sensitive to
these differences. She hated all the mothers and all their children. They told her on
the first morning that they did not like her food. She claimed to have seen the
churchgoer spitting on the hallway floor. The oldest of the childrena thirteen-year-
old boy who looked no bigger than eighthad got into the fountainclimbed onto the
statue and snapped off the Triton’s horn and his armright down to the elbow. Jack
said that it could be fixed without too much trouble. But now the partwhich had
been carried into the house and left in the scullerywas missing. On information
from old HardmanBetty accused the boy of throwing it in the lake. The boy said he
knew nothing. There was talk of draining the lakebut there was concern for the pair
of mating swans. The mother was fierce in her son’s defenses [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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