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Updated: June 10, 2025
"Look here!" said 'Tenty, coloring with quiet wrath. "I cannot be friendly, even, with a man that talks that way. You had your sport, makin' believe you liked me, and I didn't know better than to believe you was an honest man. I did think a sight of you then, Ed'ard Parker. I a'n't ashamed to own it. I had reason to, for your actions was louder than words.
So she never knew that her second sign was only a rotten tree, shining with the phosphorescence of corruption. Next morning she asked Edward: 'Could folks see angels now? 'Yes, if it was God's will. 'If one came, would it be a sign? 'I suppose so, dear. 'What'd you do, Ed'ard, if you were bound to find out summat? Edward was thinking out heads of a discourse on the power of prayer.
She left a little blotted note for Edward. 'Dunna think too bad of me, Ed'ard. I be bound to go to Undern and live; I ud liefer bide along of you. She went through the shadow-sweet meadows where birds hopped out across green stretches in the cool, the high corn that had once been her comrade, the honeysuckle hedges that used to bring so childish a glee.
The longer the omen tarried, the more she wanted it to come. Then fatalism reasserted itself, and she relapsed into her usual state of mind. 'I dunna care, she said. 'It inna no use to tarry. They unna play. I'll bide along of Ed'ard at chapel on Sunday, and sing higher than last time. She turned home.
"So I am, Solon, and my wife with me," presenting Zoe, who timidly held out her little gloved hand. Solon took it respectfully, gazing at her in wide-eyed and open-mouthed wonder. "Ki! Marse Ed'ard, you don' say you's ben an' gwine an' got married! Why dere's weddin's an' weddin's in de family!"
'He said such awful things, Ed'ard, and the dress the dress was so pretty. 'You poor child! you dear little one! So it was a pretty colour, was it? 'Ah! 'You shall have one like it. He went off whistling. It was when she had been back nearly six weeks, and the August days were scorching the Mountain, that the strain became unbearable. She was not feeling well. Reddin had made no sign.
'You are first. She caught his hands; she flung herself upon his shoulder in a rush of tears. If this was his tragic moment, it was also hers. 'Oh, Ed'ard, Ed'ard! she cried, 'it's you as I'd lief have for my lover! It's you as I'm for, body and soul, if I'm for a mortal man! It's your baby as I want, Ed'ard, and I wouldna be feared o' the pain as Sally told of if it was yours.
You've put a spell on me! she moaned. 'I want to be along of Ed'ard, and you've bound me to be along of you. I dunna like you, but I canna think of ought else! She fought a hard battle that night. The compulsion to get up and go straight to Undern was so strong that it could only be compared to the pull of matter on matter.
'You'd ought to have told me. She says it's mortal pain to have a baby, and I'm feared I'm feared! 'Hazel, he said humbly, 'I may as well tell you now that I mean to marry you. The parson must divorce you. Then we'll be married. And I'll turn over a new leaf. 'I'll ne'er marry you! said Hazel, 'not till Doom breaks. I dunna like you. I like Ed'ard.
"Along with most of her guns, I take it," said Trimble Rogers. "What with losing all those men, in one way or another, this Blackbeard, as Cap'n Ed'ard Teach miscalls hisself, must needs abandon the sloop. The more the merrier, says I, when we come at close quarters." Jack asked many curious questions, by way of passing the time. The old man was easy to read.
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