"I don't know why I bothered raising such a worthless bastard boy," she added under her breath.

Maybe Lathea was hoping that the cure would rid them both of the bastard boy.

"If he'd sown himself a nice crop o' bastard boys back then, might be we'd have some soldiers now".

I will hear no more of this bastard boy.

Or maybe he was only pretending to be a bastard boy.

Well, a new name hardly conceals the insufferable bastard boy I met formerly.

From that small bastard boy our line sprang.

A stupid bullheaded bastard boy, that's all he is.

Now, here, all three on the street and vulnerable at once-the man, Celestina, the bastard boy.

Apparently the bastard boy was effeminate, a quality he sure as hell hadn't inherited from his father.