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"I guess I'll be obedient, Captain," said Liosha, proud of her incredulity. "I don't allow my ship's company to bring many trunks and portmanteaux aboard," smiled Captain Maturin. "I'll see to the dunnage," said Jaffery. "The what?" I asked. "It's only passengers that have luggage. Sailor folk like Liosha and me have dunnage."
Holding these in front of Liosha, like a stern nurse administering medicine, she waited till the fit had subsided. Then she spoke. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Liosha, going on like a silly schoolgirl instead of a grown-up woman of the world. I wonder you didn't announce your intention of assassinating Jaffery." "I've a good mind to," replied Liosha, nursing her grievance.
I hope you'll understand what a heroic thing she did. She faced what seemed to be certain death for me; and it is thanks to Liosha that I'm able to tell you that I'm alive. And she, God bless her, walks about with her head bandaged, among an adoring ship's company, and refuses to admit having done anything wonderful."
Both wore sailors' caps and jerseys and sea-boots, and Barbara's keen eye detected the fact that Liosha, for freedom's sake, had cut a foot or so off the bottom of her skirt without taking the trouble to hem up the edge, which, now frayed, hung about her calves in disgraceful fringes. "I think you were wrong, my dear," said I. "The poor thing looks anything but utterly miserable."
All the rest remains. Let us bury all past unhappiness between us two." "I wish we could. But how?" "There is a way." "What is that?" "You make things somewhat hard for me. You might guess. But I'll tell you. Liosha again was right. . . . If you want me still, I will marry you. Not quite yet; but, say, in six months' time.
But Fendihook was undismayed. "Some fellows have all the luck! Here's to him, and here's to you, Sheba's Queen." He nodded to Liosha and pulled at his drink. But Liosha did not respond. A hard look appeared in her eyes and the knuckles of her hand showed white. Presently she rose and went onto the terrace, where she found Jaffery fixing a rebellious rug round Doria's feet.
Thus it was natural for Liosha's father to find an Albanian wife in Chicago. She too was superficially Americanised. When they returned to Albania with their purely American daughter, they at first found it difficult to appear superficial Albanians. Liosha had to learn Albanian as a foreign language, her parents and herself always speaking English among themselves.
It has nothing whatever to do with Jaffery Chayne or Liosha except perhaps to shew that there is no reason why a Tierra del Fuegan foundling should not run across his long-lost brother on Michigan Avenue, and still less reason why Albanian male should not meet Albanian female in Armour's stockyards.
In spite of her unquestioning readiness to shoulder burdens, Prescott would run to relieve her. Liosha has assured me that Jaffery did the same and indeed I cannot conceive Jaffery allowing a female companion to stagger along under a load which he could swing onto his huge back and carry like a walnut.
Unreservedly she had laid herself as a "damn fool" at our feet or rather at Jaffery's feet, for I did not count for much. Instead of blundering over her and tugging her up and otherwise exacerbating her wounds, he lifted her with tactful kindness to her self-respect. For the first time, save when Susan was the connecting-link, he entered into a spiritual relation with Liosha.
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