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Updated: May 15, 2025
"I am very busy. But if you could go and wait for me in my house. It's less than ten minutes' walk. Oh, yes, you don't know the way." He called for his coat and offered to take me there himself. He would have to return to the store at once for an hour or so to finish his business, and then he would be at liberty to talk over with me that matter of quarter-bags.
I must say the old woman was putting it forward with considerable gusto. It was on her lips the universal explanation, the universal allusion, the universal taunt. One day Jacobus came in early and, beckoning me into the dining- room, wiped his brow with a weary gesture and told me that he had managed to unearth a supply of quarter-bags.
It was commercial amenity, but I had been a stranger to amenity in that connection. Wide awake under his sleepy, broad mask with glued lips, he understood at once, had a movement of the head so appreciative that I relieved my exasperation by exclaiming: "Surely there must be eleven hundred quarter-bags to be found in the colony. It's only a matter of looking for them."
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