"He will kill me," cried Thames. From the white beach
the palms ran in serried rows quarter of a mile inland, then began a jungle of
bamboo, gum-tree, sandalwood, plantain, huge fern, and choking grasses. He came down
the shop looking for her quite obviously, and took up a position on the other side
against a mirror in which he was able to regard her steadfastly. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by
various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape
with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of
widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a
linsey-woolsey shawl. ‘Kimble, you
shouldn’t be here. “And children must we women bear—
“Oh, damn!” she cried, as the hundred-and-first couplet or so presented itself
in her unwilling brain. But probably not the truth. He had reacted by pushing her
away, disgust and frustration on his face. But they found him on the veranda when they returned from McClintock's that
evening. "
"Well, Sir, I must say you deserve some credit for your ingenuity, at all events,"
replied Jonathan, repressing a smile; "but, before you put out your foot so far, it
would have been quite as prudent to consider how you were to draw it back
again.
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