Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 1, 2025
'Let my sons plant others if they so will. He always spoke in this careless way of his children, and I believe he had many, for an islander keeps as many wives as he can afford; but they lived about the villages, and could not be told from the other inhabitants by any sign of rank or mark of favour he showed them. "For a long while I believed that Aoodya must be a daughter of his.
Aoodya and my child never rose again; but the Berbalang came to the surface at once and floated, bobbing for a while on the ripple, his head thrown back, his brown chest shining up at me, and the blood spreading on the water around it. "It was Hamid who unpinned me and led me away. He had made shift to climb down, and while binding up my wounded hand pointed towards the beach. It was empty.
"Now when I reached home with my string of fish, I walked round to the back of the house to clean them before going in. This took me past the window of our room, and glancing inside the window was unglazed, you understand I saw Aoodya standing before the cradle and talking, quick and angry, with a man posted in the doorway opening on the verandah. "I was not jealous.
"What to do I had no idea; but I hadn't a doubt that the Berbalangs were after Aoodya or the child, or both, and I headed for home with the wind singing by my ears. At the foot of the pass I looked back. Hamid was following, skipping from one lava stone to another at a pace that did credit to his old legs. He waved a hand and called as I thought, to encourage me; and away down I pounded.
'That's for you, sonny, said I, 'and if the Berbalangs come along you can pass them on to your father. I faced round on Aoodya with a smile which no doubt was thin enough, though honestly meant to hearten her. 'It's all right, old girl. Come back to bed, said I, and held her in my arms until I fell asleep in the dawn.
When she was not feeding him or calling on me to admire his perfections, from the cleverness of his smile to the beautiful shape of his toes, he lay and slept, or kicked in a basket slung on a long bamboo fastened across the rafters, Aoodya would give the basket a pull, and this set it bobbing up and down on the spring of the bamboo for minutes at a time.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking