”
“What did your aunt say?”
“She didn’t even kiss me. It is like a
second honeymoon. But if he's in bed, how the devil is he going with me, supposing I decide to
hire him? The mudhook comes up to-morrow night. She is my only family. ’ With an unexpected flush of pleasure,
he recalled the girl’s antics. Knowing the South
Seas from hearsay and by travel, he knew something of that inertia which
blunted the fineness, innate and acquired, of white men and women, the eternal
warfare against indifference and slovenliness. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been
said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the
faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility,
conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every
blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked
by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made;
—how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him
suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making
it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only
delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. "I'm sure
little Jack has but one friend beside myself, in the world, and that's more than I
would have ventured to say for him yesterday. Then she
dropped the curtain and stepped back into the room. ”
For a moment or two he did not speak. ‘I want a word with you, my lad. That’s really our choice now, defy—or futility. .
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