She picked up the
hand cannon. The few
whites he had ever known generally offered to pet him when they really wanted
to kick him. He renewed
his supplications to Sharples, but with no better success than heretofore; and the
greater part of the night was passed by him and the poor widow, whose anxiety,
if possible, exceeded his own, in the most miserable state imaginable. "There's a young woman. In
doing so, he had to clamber up the immense heap of bricks and rubbish which
now littered the floor, amounting almost to a car-load, and reaching up nearly to
the top of the chimney-piece. “Loneliness,” she said, “is a luxury which I never permit myself. It was dangerous for her
to dare approaching him and she knew the tremendous
risk she was taking, but a part of her demanded that he be
found. ‘I might have killed you,’ she snapped, ‘if only you did not say anything. It’s an instinct. She is the wife now of another man. ‘What?’
‘Nothing,’ snapped Roding, with an odd look at his bride to be that Gerald
could not interpret. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been
said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the
faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility,
conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every
blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked
by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made;
—how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him
suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making
it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only
delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe.
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