Simon monologue (Act 5) — Betsey Bobbett: A Drama

Well; you ought to see what a head of hair he’s got now; sound to the roots, not a lock missing. I wanted to be one, but my late wife come and kept house for me, and—and married me. I lived with her for eighteen years, and when she left me I was—I was reconciled. I was reconciled some time before it took place. I don’t want to say nothin’ against nobody that hain’t round here in this world, but I lost a good deal of hair by my late wife; and I wanted to keep a lock or two for my children to keep as a relict of me. I have got thirteen, as you know, countin’ each pair of twins as two, and it would take a considerable number of hairs to go round. I don’t want to marry agin.