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"Let him," returned Banneker comfortably, his long-bred habit of un-self-consciousness standing him in good stead. "They'll all forget it soon enough." As he glanced over at the group around the table, the man who was apparently acting as host caught his eye and nodded in friendly fashion. "Oh, you know Marrineal, do you?" asked Cressey in surprise. "I've seen him, but I've never spoken to him.
In Alastair's kitchen the thought came to me then what will the son of these two be the father strong as a mountain ash, and with the cruel arrogant pride of a long-bred race behind him, his own will his only law, and the queer twist of tenderness for old stories and old songs and his love for all nature a stark man, who would reach out and take what he desired; and the mother fiercely tender, wildly, passionately loving her chosen man, all the dark East in her black eyes, all the deadly South in her blazing angers a graceful, hard, blue steel blade of Damascus, with jewel-encrusted hilt and sheath of velvet.
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