Word: mugger
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...brother find her fair no longer. Stew Stewa falls in love with another lady. Laca calls on the stepmother. He would marry the girl himself, he says, but damme, he cannot stomach the child. Whereupon the stepmother, on a black winter's night, drugs Jenufa, steals out hugger-mugger into the dark and drowns the bastard in an icy brook. On the day of the marriage feast, the ice thaws, peasants discover a disfigured bundle in the sedge. Step-mother is led off to jail, but iron bars make no cage for her. Her daughter is an Honest Woman...
Jenufa's stepmother, stealing hugger-mugger to the brook...