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'There's you and there's Ed'ard Oh, what for are you? Reddin looked at her in astonishment. A woman not to like a man to be in love with her. It was uncanny. He stood square-set against the darkening sky, his fine massive head slightly bent, looking down at her. He looked at Hazel accusingly; then he gazed up at the coming night as a lion might at the sound of thunder.
'At the sweetness of knowing you didn't go of your own accord. 'What for did you shiver? 'At the dark power of our fellow-creatures set against us. 'I inna feared of 'em now, Ed'ard. Maybe it'll come right, and you'll get all as you'd lief have. 'I only want you. 'And me you. They both had happy dreams that night. Outside, the stars were fierce with frost. The world hardened.
'But you like me a bit? Better than the parson? 'I dunno. 'Come off with me now. I swear I'll play fair. 'I swore! she cried. 'I swore by the Mountains, and that can ne'er be broke. 'What did you swear? 'To marry the first as come. That's Ed'ard.
Try a shot from the lower-deck at her, Sir Ed'ard. "'It goes over her. "'Beat to quarters, and fire coolly and deliberately at her masts and yards.
It was as if evil and good, angels and devils, fought for her. And whichever won, she was equally forlorn. She did not want heaven; she wanted earth and the green ways of earth. 'Oh, he'll kill Ed'ard! she moaned. Edward staggered under a blow, and she hid her eyes. Suddenly she thought of Vessons. Where was he? She ran to the kitchen calling him. He was not there. She went to the stables.
The two spectres moved forward as the one of the deeper voice declaimed: "Doomed I was to find no rest till I overtook your ship, Ed'ard Teach. Each night you'll see me walk the plank from your quarter-deck." The unhappy Blackbeard gibbered something and would have fled as the spirits approached him. But those bandy legs tottered and before he could turn the awful visitants were upon him.
I mean has he no friends with him?" "I b'lieves dar's a lady long wid him, Marse Ed'ard, but I mos'ly has to guess 'bout de half ob what dese Frenchers say." "You don't know the name, Ben?" "No, sah, couldn't make it out de way dey dispronounces it. But I understands, sah, dat dese folks meanin' de sick gentleman and de lady and we's de only 'Mericans in de town."
But Edward, rendered pitiless by pain, forcibly pulled her back, and made her look at him. 'Did you find out? he repeated. 'There inna no more, she whispered. 'Then it is true what he said, that you were his from head to foot? 'Oh, Ed'ard, let me be! I canna bear it! 'I wish I could have killed him! Edward said. 'Then you were his soul and body? 'Not soul! 'You told a good many lies.
So now he was very angry. His look was like a lash as he said: 'You made that up to get rid of me. 'I didna! cried Hazel, trembling. 'But oh! Mr. Reddin canna you leave me be? There's Ed'ard reading the many mansions bit to old Solomon Bache, as good as gold, and you'd ought to let me bide along of the old lady and knit. 'I'll give you something better to do than knit soon.
The exhibits must be there by ten; but Edward did not care in the least how many hours he spent there. The day was only darkened for him by one thing. When the trap came round, and Hazel climbed in joyously, Edward forgot the exhibits. He would have gone off without them had not Martha come flying down the path shouting: 'Mr. Ed'ard! Mr. Ed'ard! Nineteen six! Nineteen nine! Jam!
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