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Gotham Reads Bees

chapter 58

Jenny asks Jamie to give her rosary - Ellen's rosary - to Mandy if she doesn't return safely from New York.

We don't ever really see Jenny with Mandy - but I'm sure they get along quite well. They're very alike.

And Jenny is also pragmatic about it, in a way that just breaks my heart. For she sees the Ellen in Mandy. Which now to me is quite obvious, though I'd never really considered it before:

“See, when ye come to reckon your life,” she said briskly, stooping to pick up the goat’s rope, “ye see that it’s the bairns are most important. They carry your blood and they carry whatever else ye gave them, on into the time ahead.”

Her voice was perfectly steady, but she cleared her throat with a tiny hem before going on. “Mandy’s the farthest out, aye?” she said. “As far as I can reach. The youngest girl of Mam’s blood. Let her take it on, then.”