![]() ![]() Although Manon is galled by Sarah's two children by Gaudet, her own childlessness is less by misfortune than design she endures the marital bed only through an addictive cocktail of port and opiate tincture. Her husband not only has little conversation beyond the relative merits of cane or cotton, and a zeal for shooting animals and runaway negroes, but his sexual predilections are manifest through the offspring of the mulatta slave Sarah: little bastards, as Manon coldly terms them, who take after her husband with their red hair and green eyes. The narrator, Manon Gaudet, is a listless southern belle from New Orleans, unhappily hitched to the boorish and impecunious owner of a failing Louisiana sugar plantation. ![]()
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