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Some of the Lashcairn women wouldna think of ruling themselves. Then they go after the man they need, like the witch-woman. And take him." Marcella frowned. "It sends them on strange roads sometimes," said Wullie, and would say no more. It was Marcella's rest night, and tired as she was, she lay thinking long in the silence.
Red fires, white and silver moonlight why Naples is making me get poetical," he added, stopping short. People began to come on deck: the schoolmaster walked along, his finger in between two pages of a Baedeker in which he was going to count off the items of interest he encountered. "Good morning, Miss Lashcairn!" he said with a smile. "See Naples and die!"
She looked across to Louis, who was sleeping heavily in his hammock; he had found time to tell her that, for the first time, he had held temptation literally in his hand and been able to conquer it. And she felt that Castle Lashcairn was not big enough to hold all the kindliness and happiness that seemed to be focussing upon it from all the round horizon.
He was indignant with Marcella for asking Kraill to stay in a hut, but he realized that it was only another evidence of what he called the "Lashcairn conceit" and that, if Marcella had thought it desirable to ask the Governor-General to tea, she would have done so unhesitatingly.
Later, when the woman had gone, and the two servant women were crying in the kitchen while they drank scalding tea and spilt it down their aprons from trembling hands, Andrew Lashcairn and Aunt Janet sat in the book-room with all Rose Lashcairn's papers spread out before them. Marcella sat for a while watching. There were letters, smelling of the lavender and rue that lay among them.
Did I ever tell you of Tammas Lashcairn and how he tore a wolf to pieces in the old grey house on Ben Grief?" He talked quickly and strangely, disjointed talk out of which she wove wild tales of the deaths of her people in the past. After he had got back into bed and she stooped over him, trying to chafe warmth into his cold feet, he looked at her more kindly than he had ever looked before.
Aunt Janet made no explanations; his small black eyes took in all the decay and famine of the place; his neat black Sabbatical coat looked queerly out of place in the book-room with its scarred oak refectory table, its hard oak chairs and its dusty banner hung from the ceiling above where Andrew Lashcairn sat.
In the book room she had heard raised voices when the Edinburgh surgeon had said, "In my opinion it was caused by a blow it cannot have come in that particular position except by injury a blow, Mr. Lashcairn." There had been a Berserk rage then, and violence before which the doctors had been driven away.
To begin with, someone trod on her foot and did not apologize; several people elbowed her out of their way in their rush to get to their luggage; no one smiled at her or spoke to her; no one seemed to realize that she was Marcella Lashcairn, or, if they realized it, it made no impression on them. "Don't people here seem bad tempered?" said she to the doctor.
He didn't say any more, 'I'm Andrew Lashcairn, the son of generations of drunkards and madmen. He changed it and said, 'I'm God's man I've given Him my homage and made Him the Captain of my life. And then, don't you see, he stopped being shut in inside himself any longer. He began to love me and be gentle to me. Louis, do you know, I believe you're tackling this worry in the wrong way.
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