It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply
and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she
could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. Gerald guessed she was biting her tongue on an
explosive retort as she eyed him. ‘If you had told
him that I would rather die than see him, he would not have come. They were all stout ill-favoured men, attired in the regular jail-livery of scratch
wig and snuff-coloured suit; and had all a strong family likeness to each other. There were moments when she thought of turning upon this man and talking
to him. Mike was showing his territorial instincts, brought out by
the fact that he was drunk. But the indecision,
which had been fatal to his race, was fatal to him.
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