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"Thar ain't no others," returned Hanway, stolidly unmarking. "Oh, so you are the eldest?" "By five year. Narcissa ain't more 'n jes' turned eighteen." The valley man's face was flushed more deeply still; his brilliant eyes were elated. "Narcissa!" he cried, with the joy of delighted identification. "She is the girl, then, that testified at the inquest. Narcissa!"
His expression was timid yet cunning; from time to time, through, the kind of mane which fell over his face, he cast obliquely on his mother a look of defiance, or exchanged with his sister Amandine a glance of intelligence and affection. She, seated by his side, was occupied, not in marking, but in unmarking some linen stolen the night previous.
The widow placed on her knees a napkin, which she was unmarking, and looked at her son. He had his head down, but he thought he felt the terrible look of his mother was upon him. Fearing to meet her formidable face, the child remained immovable. "Are you deaf, Francois'?" resumed Calabash, much irritated. "Mother do you see?"
If Nicholas is late, it is, perhaps, because he has found something on the way, as he did yesterday this linen, boned from a washing-boat;" and she showed one of the pieces of linen which Amandine was unmarking; then, speaking to the child, she said, "What does boning mean?" "This means to take," answered the child, without raising her eyes.
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