It is often around a meal that kinship tighten the elbows. On one of these occasions, women prepare “darnes of sturgeon seasoned with salt, pepper and dried salicorn, picked up on the battures at low tide”.
Lovemaking
We are entitled to some love antics before marriage, where “the embarrassment and initial modesty [font] Make way for perfect privacy … despite repeated warnings of the priest ”. In the case of the two teenagers concerned, he never comes to mind that they commit a serious sin.
Frédérick is a renowned violinist, invited to perform on the biggest stages both in Quebec and in the United States. During a marriage, he has the opportunity to interpret the nuptial march of Mendelssohn and the Major canon of Pachelbel.
The parish priest, for his part, delivers an interminable sermon on the loyalty and responsibilities of the spouses. “Eva tightens when the man in cassock evokes the obligation of obedience of the woman, while the husband is not subject to the same rule.”
She wonders how long it will take to wait for this stupid rule to be abolished. Fortunately, Eva does not feel concerned, because Frédéric never demanded submission, “knowing very well that it would be futile to try”.
