"Bad for you?" And he is unwinding it, or at least loosening it. "Burr, I know you have complete disregard for your own animal needs; I have chosen my battle in that arena and prosecuted it with great persistence, to the exclusion of all others."
He means, he makes Burr eat but otherwise doesn't fuss around.
"In this, I do not change my established policy on the matter. You'll be fine. But what about her?"
The damn pronoun slips out before he can think to change it to a more innocuous it or even an appropriate noun, like the child. Instead, he betrays that he has thought on it, that he imagined a girl, and that he resolved to keep imagining a girl because if it ever came up, he thinks Burr's resolve would crumble before a female child the way it might not before male. Burr is adamant about the rationality and respectability of women in a way he is adamant about so few things, and that adamance attracts Hamilton intensely.
He notices he has placed rested his hand on Burr's belly, and he flinches away as he remembers himself.
"Do you want to hurt h-- it?" Hamilton persists. "Violence may have gotten you with child, Burr, but I cannot believe you want to transfer the same violence to a fetus that you have, reluctantly or not, nurtured within you."
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He means, he makes Burr eat but otherwise doesn't fuss around.
"In this, I do not change my established policy on the matter. You'll be fine. But what about her?"
The damn pronoun slips out before he can think to change it to a more innocuous it or even an appropriate noun, like the child. Instead, he betrays that he has thought on it, that he imagined a girl, and that he resolved to keep imagining a girl because if it ever came up, he thinks Burr's resolve would crumble before a female child the way it might not before male. Burr is adamant about the rationality and respectability of women in a way he is adamant about so few things, and that adamance attracts Hamilton intensely.
He notices he has placed rested his hand on Burr's belly, and he flinches away as he remembers himself.
"Do you want to hurt h-- it?" Hamilton persists. "Violence may have gotten you with child, Burr, but I cannot believe you want to transfer the same violence to a fetus that you have, reluctantly or not, nurtured within you."