’
‘Hadn’t the wit, you mean. "
Amazed at the boy's assurance, Wood left off boxing his ears for a moment, and,
looking at him steadfastly, said in a grave tone, "Jack, Jack, you'll come to be
hanged!"
"Better be hanged than hen-pecked," retorted the lad with a malicious grin. Old farmhouses
loomed as they whizzed by, left behind in the gray like
mourners. I believed that our marriage was genuine. It was not so uncommon back in the
Hebrides for men to take several wives and additional
lovers. She
whipped round suddenly, and discovered the woman wedged into the corner by
the window, keeping out of the way. I was ready to wager that your name would have marched with one of
them. He looked at her for a moment in a puzzled sort of way. ‘I’m damned if I see what you have to complain of,’ uttered Charvill, a faintly
bewildered note underlying his irascibility. "
"'Thou shalt take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer which is guilty of
death, but he shall surely be put to death'," said Wood referring to another text. And turning again, as if the emotions she had
churned up kept her on the move, she paced back to the mantel and there
stopped, staring at her own reflection in the tarnished mirror.
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