Women by Handheld Classics

Author:Handheld Classics [Handheld Classics]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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It was after this that – without another word said – Rhoda, meek for once, followed her brother’s example, and began to speak of the creature as ‘He.’

They even gave him a name. They called him Hodge; only in fun, and yet with a feeling that here was one of the first of all countrymen: less learned, and yet in some ways so much more observant, self-sufficing, than his machine-made successors.

He could run at an almost incredible rate, bent as he was; climb any tree; out-throw either of them, doubling the distance. It was there that they got at the meaning of that closed fist; for at least three days he had never let go of his stone – his one weapon.

‘He didn’t trust us.’ Rhoda was hurt, her vanity touched; and when they had seemed to be making such progress, too!

‘Not that – a sort of ingrained habit; the poor devil didn’t feel dressed without it,’ protested Hector. ‘Of course he trusts us as much as a perfectly natural creature ever trusts anything or anybody.’

That was enough for the boy, but not for his sister. In absolute innocence, still thinking – despite that ‘He’ – of their new acquisition as an animal, a strange, uncouth sort of pet, she wanted him to be ‘really fond’ of her, to trust her completely; as much hers as any dog domesticated through the ages.

And this was the beginning of the trouble.

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