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Bernadette Morrissey is a mixed-blood mother of four children: Clarence, Sophie, Philomena, and Marie. She is a widow who works on a farm with her brother, Napoleon. She works both as a midwife to help babies into the world and also as a preparer of the dead, a trade she teaches Pauline, who she allows to live with them. When Pauline becomes pregnant with Napoleon’s baby, Bernadette convinces Pauline to keep it and then adopts the child as her own once it is born. After her two eldest children marry, she moves to Argus to work as secretary to the Agent, denying the Indian ways in a similar way to Pauline.
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Chapter 6
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After that we made a plan together to hide the fact of my condition. We were both clever with materials and scissors, and between us we devised a concealing dress that would allow me to accompany Bernadette until I became too advanced. Once that happened, I would not venture off the farm. She would deliver me, having knowledge in her hands of birth as well as death.
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Bernadette Morrissey Quotes in Tracks
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Chapter 6
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After that we made a plan together to hide the fact of my condition. We were both clever with materials and scissors, and between us we devised a concealing dress that would allow me to accompany Bernadette until I became too advanced. Once that happened, I would not venture off the farm. She would deliver me, having knowledge in her hands of birth as well as death.
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