“You can date whomever you wish. She glanced into her companion’s face, and she saw there strange things. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit, at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care, with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load. “John, of course I forgive you if it is what you need from me. I can’t love you. Even in his fevered hours, so the girl had said, his tongue had not betrayed him. 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. You mustn't go by what you read so much as by what you see and hear. For all that, Ah Cum was forced to admit that his charge did not look dissipated. He embraced her fully. In the next place, she really had some pretensions to beauty.
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