The Jilting of Granny Weatherall By Katherine Anne Porter

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

By Katherine Anne Porter

(1930)

   She flicked her wrist neatly out of Doctor Harry’s pudgy careful fingers and pulled the sheet up to her chin. The brat ought to be in knee breeches. Doctoring around the country with spectacles on his nose! “Get along now. Take your schoolbooks and go. There’s nothing wrong with me.”

   Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushion on her forehead where the forked green vein danced and made her eyelids twitch. “Now, now, be a good girl, and we’ll have you up in no time.”

   “That’s no way to speak to a woman nearly eighty years old just because she’s down. I’d have you respect your elders, young man.”

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