Boitelle
by Guy de MaupassantGenre: Drama
Setting: Europe
Format of Original Source: Short Story
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Candidate for Adaptation? Not Reviewed
EXCERPT:
Father Boitelle (Antoine) made a specialty of undertaking dirty jobs all through the countryside. Whenever there was a ditch or a cesspool to be cleaned out, a dunghill removed, a sewer cleansed, or any dirt hole whatever, he way always employed to do it.
He would come with the instruments of his trade, his sabots covered with dirt, and set to work, complaining incessantly about his occupation. When people asked him then why he did this loathsome work, he would reply resignedly:
“Faith, ’tis for my children, whom I must support. This brings me in more than anything else.”
He had, indeed, fourteen children. If any one asked him what had become of them, he would say with an air of indifference:
“There are only eight of them left in the house. One is out at service and five are married.”
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