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Updated: May 21, 2025
She had found her own hunger for learning, her own strength and weakness, and while she had lost to the Widow Plosell, she had clearly seen that it was not her fault but Gus Carline's meagreness of mind and shallowness of soul. Instead of losing her confidence, she had found her own ability.
He took it ill, and said he was ill served in that he had to drudge and labour abroad in all the foulest weather; but withal he went down to the beach before the ladders and found the carline's tree there, and deemed things had gone well because of it; so he took it up and bore it to the hut, and cast it down thereby with a mighty thump.
Then I went driving my goats home speedily, so that the sun was barely set when I came to the garth; and a great horror rather than a fear of my mistress was on me; and lo! she stood in the door of the house gazing down the garth and the woodland beyond, as though she were looking for my coming: and when her eyes lighted on me, she scowled, and drew her lips back from her teeth and clenched her hands with fury, though there was nought in them; and she was a tall and strong woman, though now growing somewhat old: but as for me, I had unsheathed the carline's gift before I came to the garth, and now I held it behind my back in my left hand.
The maiden neither reddened nor paled, but looking with calm steady eyes into the Carline's face she answered: "Yea true it is, I am wedded to the mighty ones of old, And the fathers of the Wolfings ere the days of field and fold." Then a smile came into the eyes of the old woman and she said.
It was a dooms het day, an' there wasna a ruffle o' breeze; sae nae doobt the fush was takin' as muckle oot o' her as she was takin' oot o' the fush. In aboot ten meenits there happent juist fat I had expectit. The fush made a sidelins shoot, an' dairted intil the vera crevice occupeed by Leddy Carline's fush the day afore. 'Noo for the fun! thinks I, as I sat still an' smokit calmly.
She didn't hab a livin', breathin' soul but her paw, 'ceptin' me an' Carline, an' Carline's liable to drop off mos' anytime." "But who is going to live with her?" "I spec she gwine git married some day," Jimpson said hopefully, "all de boys been plumb 'stracted 'bout dat chile since she wuz a little girl. But she wuz so crazy 'bout her paw, she jes laff at 'em.
What's his game? Coming up here and talking to us? Asking us all about the river and things writin' it for the newspapers?" "That woman's this Carline's wife!" Jet sneered. "Sure! An' here's Terabon an' here's Carline. Terabon don't talk none about that woman nor about Carline," Dock grumbled. "I bet Terabon would be sorry none if Carline hyar dropped out. Y' know she's Old Crele's gal," Jet said.
Therewithal he caught up a marvellous great stone, and cast it down on to the boat, and it smote that clothes-heap; and a longer stone-throw was that than Thorbiorn deemed any man might make; but therewithal a great shriek arose, for the stone had smitten the carline's thigh, and broken it. Then said Illugi, "I would thou hadst not done that!"
Course, if we'd rewarded him, likely we'd got a lot, but it ain't safe, holdin' a man for rewards ain't." "That boat'd been a good one to travel in," Jet suggested. "Everybody'd knowed it was Carline's, an' it wa'n't worth fixing over. Hull not much good, and the motor's been abused some. We'll do better'n that." They had rid themselves of an incumbrance.
The fellow had purposely encouraged him to drink immoderately Carline's memory was clear and unmistaken on that point and then, taking advantage of his unconsciousness, the pseudo writer had committed piracy. "I'd ought to be glad he didn't kill me!" Carline sneered to himself, looking around to conjure up the things that might have been. The prospect was far from pleasing.
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