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Updated: May 7, 2025
"They led the priests to the headquarters of the commanding officer where the tyrant Villa, always eager to inflict suffering on humanity, awaited them. The scene witnessed by the priests obeisant to the cruel judge was horrifying in the extreme.
If certain of her characters Abel Revercomb, Reuben Merryweather, Betsey Bottom seem at times a little too much like certain of Thomas Hardy's rustics, still the resemblance is hardly greater than that which actually exists between parts of rural Virginia and rural Wessex; Miss Glasgow is at least as faithful to her scene as if she had devoted herself solely to a chronicle of rich planters, poor whites, and obeisant freedmen.
"Because it is generally more or less abject," Hadria put in. "The sacrifice is made because the woman is a woman. It is the obeisance of sex; the acknowledgment of servility; not a simple desire of service." "The adorable creature is not always precisely obeisant," observed Theobald. She goes to the stake smiling. She swears the flames are comfortably warm, no more.
She speaks not a word in answer to the friendly salutation of the cacique; but stands silent in bent, obeisant attitude, with her skinny arms crossed over her breast, as it waiting to hear what he would further say. His words are by way of command: "Shebotha! I've brought back with me a captive a young girl of the palefaces. You must take charge of her, and keep her here in your hut.
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