[The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyde Osbourne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ebb-Tide CHAPTER 8 10/28
Well, his trouble is over now, he has lain down with kings and councillors; the rest of his acts, are they not written in the book of the chronicles? That fellow was from Penrhyn; like all the Penrhyn islanders he was ill to manage; heady, jealous, violent: the man with the nose! He lies here quiet enough.
And so they all lie. "And darkness was the burier of the dead!"' He stood, in the strong glow of the sunset, with bowed head; his voice sounded now sweet and now bitter with the varying sense. 'You loved these people ?' cried Herrick, strangely touched. 'I ?' said Attwater.
'Dear no! Don't think me a philanthropist.
I dislike men, and hate women.
If I like the islands at all, it is because you see them here plucked of their lendings, their dead birds and cocked hats, their petticoats and coloured hose.
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