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Updated: June 24, 2025
Mrs. Unthank was standing there, her gaunt, hard face lit up with a gleam of something which was like triumph, her eyes glittering. Her lips, as though involuntarily, repeated her mistress' last words. "Another man!" There were times during their rapid journey when Seaman, studying his companion, became thoughtful.
"I've not come to bandy words with lawyers," the woman retorted. "I've come to speak to him. Can you face me, Everard Dominey, you who murdered my son and made a madwoman of your wife?" The lawyer would have answered her, but Dominey waved him aside. "Mrs. Unthank," he said sternly, "return to your duties at once, and understand that this house is mine, to enter or leave when I choose."
"I am carrying out a determination I came to in the winter," Dominey replied. "Those men are going to cut and hew their way from one end of the Black Wood to the other, until not a tree or a bush remains upright. As they cut, they burn. Afterwards, I shall have it drained. We may live to see a field of corn there, Mrs. Unthank." "You will dare to do this?" she asked hoarsely.
"You have learnt to control your words, Everard. You have slept here and you live. I have broken my word. I wonder why?" "Because," he pleaded, "I have not deserved that you should seek my life." "That sounds strangely," she reflected. "Doesn't it say somewhere in the Bible 'A life for a life'? You killed Roger Unthank." "I have killed other men since in self-defence," Dominey told her.
Their prisoner muttered to himself all the time, but made no resistance. Rachael Unthank, as she stepped in to take her place by his side, turned once more to Dominey. She was a broken woman. "You're rid of us," she sobbed, "perhaps forever. You've said harsh things of both of us. Roger isn't always so bad. Sometimes he's more gentle than at others.
It was a madwoman's threat, Squire, but her ladyship is a madwoman at this moment, and with a knife in her hand you'll never be safe in this house." "We must see," Dominey said quietly, "that she is not allowed to get possession of any weapon." "Aye! Make sure of that," Middleton scoffed, "with Mother Unthank by her side!
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