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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Fifteen thousand pesetas." Darlés said nothing to this. But his brows lifted with admiration. Such figures filled his provincial simplicity with panic and confusion. By comparison with the miserable shallowness of his purse, they seemed enormous. Little Goldie continued: "I told Don Manuel about it, but he's a clever fox. He's a sly one!
But the instant Katrina was back at the table with her girl the trouble started afresh. She could not hold the child still long enough for the sexton to make even a single incision. Now there was no one left to vaccinate but Glory Goldie of Ruffluck. Katrina was in despair because of her child's bad behaviour.
I will hold him," said Dennet. "Ah! 'tis pity, the beauteous green gold-bedropped wing that no armour of thine can equal, Stephen, not even that for the little King of Scots. But shouldst not be so silly a bird, Goldie, even though thou hast thine excuse. There! Peck not, ill birdling. Know thy friends, Master Stare."
I knew her in an instant to be Grace Goldie, though grown almost into a young woman. "It is Jack, I am sure it is," she added, taking my hand and leading me forward. "Oh, how strange that you do not know him!" My sisters now came about me, examining me with surprised looks. "How strange, Grace," said one; "surely you must be mistaken?"
He merely stooped over her desk and said, sketchily, "Mornin', little Goldie." Then for hours he seemed to avoid her. She was afraid. Most of all, afraid of her own desire to go to him and wail that he was avoiding her.
The seine-maker, like most persons whose thoughts are far away and who do not keep in touch with what happens immediately about them, was always taciturn. But when his coffee had been poured and he had emptied it into his saucer, to let it cool, it struck him that he ought to say something. "To-day there's bound to be a letter from Glory Goldie," he said. "I feel it in my bones."
How long have you been inhouse?" "Almost a month, sir." "You're terminated. Report to Goldie and tell her that Man Alexander wants you sent back to your group." The Lani's eyes widened. "Man Alexander! You?" Alexander nodded. "Gosh!" she breathed. "The big boss!" "Get moving," Alexander snapped, "and tell Goldie to report to me in my quarters." "Yes, sir, right away, sir!"
One could not imagine the old woman pinning a golden coronet on her hair when going to church; she would have stayed at home rather than show her face framed in anything but the usual black silk headshawl. Katrina had declared out and out she did not want to hear about Glory Goldie being an empress. On the whole it was perhaps best to humour her in this.
"I see of course that there are a few little whitecaps on the water, but I wouldn't be afraid to row across the lake in our old punt." Glory Goldie, who did not seem to mind the gale, remained on the pier. But Katrina, to keep from being blown to pieces, went into the freight shed and crept into a dark corner behind a couple of packing cases.
Now she felt ashamed. Nor did Glory Goldie speak. A couple of fish lay floundering on the ground, but she did not take them up; when she had stood a while looking at them, she kicked them back into the water. All that day the little girl felt displeased with herself, without knowing why. For indeed it was not she who had done wrong. She could not get the seine-maker out of her thoughts.
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