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172 Brieux
children the strong ones go to the bad. With half
the money and the fuss they wasted on the cripple, they
could have made fine fellows of all the others.
Mme. Tupin. I have to add that all this is not my
fault. My husband and I worked like beasts; we did
without every kind of pleasure to try and bring up our
children. If we had wanted to slave more, I declare to
you we couldn t have done it. And now that we have
given our lives for them, the oldest is in hospital, ruined
and done for because he worked in
"
a dangerous trade
"
as they call it. . . . There are too many people in the
world. . . .
My little girl had to choose between starva
tion and the street. ... I m only a poor woman, and I
know w7
hat it means to have nothing to eat, so I forgave
her.
Thus Mme. Tupin also understands that it is
a crime to add one more victim to those who are
born ill and for whom society has no place.
Then Lucie faces the court, Lucie who loved
her sister too well, and who, driven by the same
conditions that killed Annette, has also been
compelled to undergo an abortion rather than have
a fourth child by the man she did not love any
more. Like the Schoolmistress and the Tupins,
she is dragged before the bar of justice to explain
her crime, while her husband, who had forced
both Annette and Lucie out of the house, has
meanwhile risen to a high position as a supporter
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