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Now she confronted him, no longer the Lysbeth whom he had known, but a new being filled like a cup with fury that was the more awful because it was so quiet. "Juan de Montalvo," she said in a low voice, "your wickedness has won and for Dirk's sake my person and my goods must pay its price. So be it since so it must be, but listen.
However, what is your price?" Dirk named twice as much as he would have taken. "Half that, you mean." And the usual haggle began. "Tell thee what," said Dirk at last, "I am a man who has his fancies; and this shall be her price; half thy bid, and a box on the ear." The demon of covetousness had entered Dirk's heart.
"How can you talk like that about his pictures when he treated you as he did?" She turned to me. "Do you know, when some Dutch people came here to buy Dirk's pictures he tried to persuade them to buy Strickland's? He insisted on bringing them here to show." "What did <i you> think of them?" I asked her, smiling. "They were awful." "Ah, sweetheart, you don't understand."
When Dirk's habitation was thoroughly repaired, it was the wonder and admiration of all the Culm people. "It be like what it was when I was a gal, an' all the housen was new," said one old fish-wife, who had tottered in with the others. "Ay, mother," said Dirk, "an' it be time we had new habits to go with the new housen, eh?"
Barraclough heard the order and swept over to the right to disturb the aim as a couple of leaden hornets buzzed angrily past his ear striking the macadam a hundred yards ahead and whining away into the distance. Freddie Dirk's execution with an automatic was below the quality of his Mascot work.
"Let go, you brute let go," she cried, and with her free hand caught him a full swinging slap across the face. What particular line Dirk's resentment would have taken is unknown, for Harrison Smith came quickly between them with a muttered order and at the same time the door opened and Jane ran in. It speaks well for her courage that she did not cry out or betray alarm.
Instantly it became a case of `stand clear! The snake uncoiled itself from about Dirk's body, and proceeded to fling itself about on the ground with such terrific violence that the air round about us was presently full of bits of grass, broken twigs, and flying leaves, while Dirk, yelling like a madman, flung himself upon the writhing body of the reptile, stabbing furiously here and there with his knife but never touching the snake so far as I could see, while Pete came running up to ascertain what was the matter.
If you hesitate any longer, I call him and in your presence charge him to hand that paper to the messenger who starts this afternoon for Brussels. Once given it cannot be recalled and the pious Dirk's doom is sealed." Lysbeth's spirit began to break. "How can I?" she asked. "It is true that we are not affianced; perhaps for this very reason which I now learn.
"By telling his secret to her so that she might dismiss him, I suppose, or more likely by threatening that, if she did not, he would hand her lover over to the Inquisitors." "I see. And did you get the evidence?" "Well, I hid in the Heer Dirk's bedroom one night, and looking through a door saw him and another young man, whom I do not know, reading the Bible, and praying together."
"Do you remember?" she said in a quiet voice, "many years ago, in this very room, after you had bought me at the cost of Dirk's life, certain words I spoke to you? Now I do not think that it was I who spoke, Juan de Montalvo." And she swept past him and though the wide doorway. Red Martin stood upon the balcony gripping the man Ramiro.
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