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The room was chilly. "Monsieur Corlaer is gone, Antonia," said Marie. Antonia's shadow leaped, magnifying the young Dutchwoman's start. "Madame, you have not sent him off on his journey in the night?" "I sent him not. I begged him to remain. But he had such cold welcome from his own countrywoman that he chose the woods rather than the hospitality of Fort St. John."
Indeed one of the magistrates had frankly appealed to Mr. to hire a substitute for Margit among the negro women at Macao: and our friend engaged that by spending a few hundred additional dollars he would get the Dutchwoman's corpse accepted as full discharge for the offence, provided that Mrs. Lanyon could be smuggled out of the Canton River. This Captain Wills readily undertook to do. Mr.
He next took the Dutchwoman's knife from the dummy's pocket and dragged the rude torso to the side of the woodstack furthest from the expected approach, pushing it out across the track, so that, buttons downward, with left arm extended beyond the head which was not there, the right doubled beneath the breast, and the thrice-perforated cap, with a bunch of grass beneath it, dropped within the bend of the supposed left elbow, and the non-existence of legs concealed by the wood-pile, it might well be mistaken, by one coming down the wheel-track from the road, for a man stricken or sleeping.
It was a woman in loose black garments, with a starched white coif like a Dutchwoman's kapje, covered with a floating black veil. At her side dangled and clashed a long rosary of brown wooden beads, with a copper crucifix attached. There were two other women in the big waggon, dressed in the same way.
We hadn't yet realized the relative importance of certain affairs of life, according to a Dutchwoman's point of view. We glared reproachfully at the stout child, as much as to say, "Why don't you finish your swabbing at a proper hour?" Little was accomplished on either side by this skirmishing; so I put my pride in my pocket and inquired for her master. "Boot," replied the creature.
La señorita must change the Dutchwoman's skirt for whatever this old dame can furnish. When I leave you, feed her always, a little at a time. Talk, make love, make laugh." "And if the strength fail altogether?" asked Dick, for a moment humble before this wizened wisdom. "Better the spur and the whip than the wolves should eat the mare," answered Pépe. And he drew a little box from his pocket.
When you covered the man-hole between the platform-edge and the chimney-wall with the sooty board and the old sack, it was impossible for anyone below to see anything. The inside of the old chimney was as black as hell. The inquisition ended. The khâki-clad figures came hurrying out of the house, pursued by the Dutchwoman's shrill recriminations.
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