{"id":135,"date":"2021-06-16T10:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T14:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&p=135"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:52:49","slug":"heartless-rhoda","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/heartless-rhoda\/","title":{"raw":"Heartless Rhoda","rendered":"Heartless Rhoda"},"content":{"raw":"KISS me, as you want it so ;\r\nLub me, ef it wort' de while;[footnote]Love me, if it is worth while, i.e., if you think it worth while[\/footnote]\r\nYet I feel it an' I know[footnote]Yet I feel and know[\/footnote]\r\nDat, as t'rough de wul' you go,\r\nYou will oft look back an' smile\r\nAt de t'ings which you now do.\r\n\r\nTek me to de church te-day,\r\nCall me wife as you go home;\r\nHard fate, smilin' at us, say[footnote]Says[\/footnote]\r\nDat de whole is so-so play;\r\nSoon de ushal en' will come,\r\nAn' we both will choice[footnote]Choose, i.e, go our several ways[\/footnote] our way.\r\n\r\n* * * *\r\n\r\nSpare you' breat', me husban' true,\r\nI be'n marry you fe fun:[footnote]I married you with no serious purpose[\/footnote]\r\nLub dat las' long is a few,[footnote]Seldom met with[\/footnote]\r\nAn' I hadn' much fe you.\r\nI be'n tell you it would done,[footnote]I did tell (told) you it would soon come to an end.[\/footnote]\r\nAll whe' come is wha' you do.[footnote]All that has happened is your doing[\/footnote]\r\n\r\nLife I only care to see\r\nIn de way dat udders[footnote]Others[\/footnote] live;\r\nI experiment to be\r\nAll dat fate can mek o' me:\r\nGlad I tek all whe' she give,\r\nFor I'm hopin' to be free.[footnote]A free paraphrase will best explain the meaning of these six lines. Rhoda sees other girls marry, and out of pure curiosity she wants to find out what married life is like. So she makes the experiment, -- though this [marriage) is only one of the things that Fate has in store for her. And she takes gladly whatever Fate gives, always hoping (and meaning) to change the present experience for another.[\/footnote]","rendered":"

KISS me, as you want it so ;
\nLub me, ef it wort’ de while;[1]<\/sup><\/a>
\nYet I feel it an’ I know[2]<\/sup><\/a>
\nDat, as t’rough de wul’ you go,
\nYou will oft look back an’ smile
\nAt de t’ings which you now do.<\/p>\n

Tek me to de church te-day,
\nCall me wife as you go home;
\nHard fate, smilin’ at us, say[3]<\/sup><\/a>
\nDat de whole is so-so play;
\nSoon de ushal en’ will come,
\nAn’ we both will choice[4]<\/sup><\/a> our way.<\/p>\n

* * * *<\/p>\n

Spare you’ breat’, me husban’ true,
\nI be’n marry you fe fun:[5]<\/sup><\/a>
\nLub dat las’ long is a few,[6]<\/sup><\/a>
\nAn’ I hadn’ much fe you.
\nI be’n tell you it would done,[7]<\/sup><\/a>
\nAll whe’ come is wha’ you do.[8]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Life I only care to see
\nIn de way dat udders[9]<\/sup><\/a> live;
\nI experiment to be
\nAll dat fate can mek o’ me:
\nGlad I tek all whe’ she give,
\nFor I’m hopin’ to be free.[10]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

  1. Love me, if it is worth while, i.e., if you think it worth while ↵<\/a><\/li>
  2. Yet I feel and know ↵<\/a><\/li>
  3. Says ↵<\/a><\/li>
  4. Choose, i.e, go our several ways ↵<\/a><\/li>
  5. I married you with no serious purpose ↵<\/a><\/li>
  6. Seldom met with ↵<\/a><\/li>
  7. I did tell (told) you it would soon come to an end. ↵<\/a><\/li>
  8. All that has happened is your doing ↵<\/a><\/li>
  9. Others ↵<\/a><\/li>
  10. A free paraphrase will best explain the meaning of these six lines. Rhoda sees other girls marry, and out of pure curiosity she wants to find out what married life is like. So she makes the experiment, -- though this [marriage) is only one of the things that Fate has in store for her. And she takes gladly whatever Fate gives, always hoping (and meaning) to change the present experience for another. ↵<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":35,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-135","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/135\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}