But I dare not accept it. ” “But why?” “He’s married—and, I believe, living separated from his wife. She felt that she was not alone. There was something which chilled even him in the cold impassivity of her features. You never can tell. 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. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. Nature is a mother; her sympathies have always been feminist, and she has tempered the man to the shorn woman. It was like pouring a strong acid over dulled metal. This heroine ruled an island which (in the '80s) was rich with shell—pearl-shell; and she fought pearl thievers and marauding beachcombers, fought them with weapons and with woman's guile.
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