‘There is no one who could
have told him this. Again he rushed. ’
At this, the fellow Valade burst into unwise speech. There was the cottage she had
inhabited for so many years,—in those fields she had rambled,—at that church
she had prayed. Some man!
And to conclude it all was the figure of her father in the doorway, giving her a
last chance, his hat in one hand, his umbrella in the other, shaken at her to
emphasize his point. "
"I know you'll contradict it, Sir," said the widow, looking at Wood as if she
dreaded to have her fears confirmed,—"I know you will. "
"Ay, marry," replied Wood, with a look that seemed to say that he did not think it
required any surprising skill in the art of divination to predict the doom of the
individual in question; but whatever opinion he might entertain, he contented
himself with inquiring into the grounds of the conjuror's evil augury respecting
the infant. She had flung away from her father’s support with
the finest assumption of personal independence. He would always see the picture of the
huge, raw-boned Dutchman, haranguing and thundering the word of God into
the dull ears of South Sea Islanders, who, an hour later, would be carrying fruit
penitently to their wooden images. \"
She knew he was blushing in the dark. Then a light seemed to
break in upon him.
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