The Pride of the Peacock by Victoria Holt

Author:Victoria Holt [Holt, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Fiction in English, General
ISBN: 9788483464830
Publisher: Fontana
Published: 1976-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

wiin a grimace. i ne omy reason, i assure you. “

“Had I in my folly been washed overboard everything yo now share with me would have been yours, wouldn’t it?”

That’s true. “

“A consummation devoutly to be wished, surely?”

“Perhaps there are other consummations which would beH more devoutly so.” I drew away from him.

“Be prepared^ Jessica,” he went on.

“One of these days you’re going to growM up.”

“It seems that you never speak to me without attempting to denigrate me in some way. So of what interest will it be to you when I reach this adult stage?”

That’s what I can’t wait to discover. “

“You seem to think you should instruct me in this art of growing up?”

“A husbandly duty, perhaps.8 ” And when I do. “

“Ah, then we shall see. I am impatient to discover.”

Tell me about the Company and the life I’m going out to. “j ” It’s something you’ll have to experience for yourself. Benj has told you a great deal. You’ll be right in the midst of opalj company. We’re all opal men in Fancy Town. You know| the town got its name because Desmond Dereham had a| hunch about it. ” | ” Yes, I do know. He was my father. ” | ” I know that too. Ben told me the story. Tell me how you;| felt about Ben. You were fond of him, I know. He fascinatedJ you, didn’t he? He was a great man. But he sent your fathers away, branded him a thief and deceived us all about thes;^ Green Flash. You don’t brood on that, do you? One of the things you’ll have to learn is to accept our code of behaviour! out there. It’s something you’ll have to adjust to. Ben felt r~” compunction for having behaved as he did towards yo father.

He was going to steal the Green Hash and desert yo mother. Ben was fond of your mother and when he got fom of people, he was really devoted to them. He was a gamble at heart. We all are. We wouldn’t be there if we weren’t That’s how it is with men who go after gold .

sapphires diamonds, opals, whatever it is. Nature plays tricks and yoi compare it with playing a card game. You don’t know wha card is given to you till you turn it up. It might be the ac of spades; it might be the ace of hearts; that’s death and lov< they say. But it might be the deuce of clubs and that won’j mean much either way. There’s a lot of

luck in life, and I’VJ always uiougni you we got to oeueve m hick 10 gci’ll.

He told me about some finds which had come to light in the Fancy. He explained to me how there were pieces attached to fossilized wood which itself was impregnated with opal, but only fragments of it-nothing that could be used.

“Sometimes,” he said, ‘it’s like a sandwich. What a sandwich I There’s the precious bit in the middle and on top you get the sandstone and underneath the opal dirt.

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