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As a mere bachelor, isolated human, meeting him, I should have taken him joyously, if not to my heart, at any rate to my microscope and studied him and savoured him and got out of him all that there was of grotesqueness. But to every one of my household, save Susan who did not count, he was I admit, deservedly an object of loathing. So I squeezed Liosha's hand.
Yet Liosha's unfamiliarity with the laws and formalities of English marriage was natural, considering the fact that, not so very long before, she was placidly prepared to be sold to a young Albanian cutthroat who met his death through coming to haggle over her price. I myself had found unworthy amusement in telling her wild fables of English life. Her ignorance in many ways was abysmal.
He tells us of childish things, a catch of fish, a quarrel between the first and second mate over Liosha, second having accused first of a disrespectful attitude towards the lady, the sail-cloth screen rigged up aft behind which Liosha had her morning tub of sea-water, the stubbing of Liosha's toe and her temporary lameness, the illness of the Portugee cook and Liosha's supremacy in the galley.
He perceived the symptoms of this unforgetfulness on Liosha's part, but seems to have been absolutely fogged in diagnosis. "Liosha flourishes," he writes in one of his last Vesta letters, "like a virgin forest of green bay trees. Gosh! She's splendid. I take back and swallow every presumptuous word I've said about her.
I'm a barbarian, my dear girl, just like yourself. If you wanted to be taken out, why on earth didn't you say so?" Liosha regarded him steadily. "I would rather cut my tongue out." Jaffery returned her gaze for a few seconds, then turned away puzzled. There seemed to be an unnecessary vehemence in Liosha's tone. He turned again and approached her with a smiling face.
Liosha kissed Barbara and shook hands with Jaffery and me, bade us be seated and put us at our ease with a social grace which could not have been excelled by the admirable Mrs. That maligned lady had performed her duties during the past two years with characteristic ability. Parenthetically I may remark that Liosha's table-manners and formal demeanour were now irreproachable. Mrs.
Jaffery rose to his feet and roared with laughter. It was a fine joke. "There's a lot in Liosha's suggestion," said Barbara, with an air of seriousness. "You don't expect me to come and live here?" he cried, waving a hand to the frills and ribbons. "It wouldn't be a bad idea," said I. "You would get all the advantages and refining influences of a first-class English home." He pivoted round.
They're all children, you know, when you come to the bottom of them, these hell-tearing fellows children afflicted with a perpetual thirst and a craving to punch heads and Liosha's a child, too; so there's a kind of freemasonry between them. "There was the devil's own row in the fo'c'sle the other evening.
Considine had also taken up the Western education of the child of twelve at the point at which it had been arrested, and had brought Liosha's information as to history, geography, politics and the world in general to the standard of that of the average schoolgirl of fifteen.
He's got three or four wives in fact oh, a dreadful hound but only one real one with a wedding ring, and she lives up in the north with a pack of children." "All the more dangerous for Liosha to associate with such a villain." He waved the suggestion aside. No fear of that, said he. It was not Liosha's game. Hers was an Amazonian kind of chastity. Here I agreed with him.
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