“You may go on with that work,” he said, “so long as you keep in harmony
with things at home. The windows of these rooms were obscured
with draperies, their floors a carpet patchwork; the china ornaments on their
mantels were of a class apart. Wood gave the required promise, though
he could not help thinking that if either of them had cause to be jealous he was
the party. Though he walked by the side of the governor, he seldom
exchanged a word with him, but appeared wholly absorbed in the contemplations
inspired by a broadbowled Dutch pipe. "All that you have been telling me, our old Kanaka cook summed up in a
phrase. So far, however, was this submission from producing the desired effect, that it
seemed only to lend additional fuel to her displeasure. She got up, put the
neat cuffs she had made into her work-basket, and went to the bureau for the
little cards in the morocco case. . And she had not dressed herself in this habit of
a blue so much like the sky just for his sake, no matter that Lucy had said how
much this colour suited with her eyes. Against the walls hung an assortment of staves,
brown-bills, (weapons then borne by the watch,) muskets, handcuffs, great-coats,
and lanterns. ”
“It is,” he replied, “the one humiliation of my life. The gentleman with the red beard will
relieve you of your prisoner. Now, however, as Gerald watched them, their heads were together and they
were murmuring in French.
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