SHE by H. Rider Haggard by H. Rider Haggard
Author:H. Rider Haggard [Haggard, H. Rider]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adventure, Romance, !Fantasy, Gothic
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Publisher: Halcyon Press Ltd.
Published: 2010-07-27T00:00:00+00:00
XV
AYESHA GIVES JUDGMENT
The next thing that I remember was opening my eyes and perceiving the form of Job, who had now practically recovered from his attack of fever. He was standing in the ray of light that pierced into the cave from the outer air, shaking out my clothes as a makeshift for brushing them, which he could not do because there was no brush, and then folding them up neatly and laying them on the foot of the stone couch. This done, he got my travelling dressingâcase out of the Gladstone bag, and opened it ready for my use. First he stood it on the foot of the couch also, then, being afraid, I suppose, that I should kick it off, he placed it on a leopard skin on the floor, and stood back a step or two to observe the effect. It was not satisfactory, so he shut up the bag, turned it on end, and, having rested it against the foot of the couch, placed the dressingâcase on it. Next he looked at the pots full of water, which constituted our washing apparatus. "Ah!" I heard him murmur, "no hot water in this beastly place. I suppose these poor creatures only use it to boil each other in," and he sighed deeply.
"What is the matter, Job?" I said.
"Beg pardon, sir," he said, touching his hair. "I thought you were asleep, sir; and I am sure you seem as though you want it. One might think from the look of you that you had been having a night of it."
I only groaned by way of answer. I had, indeed, been having a night of it, such as I hope never to have again.
"How is Mr. Leo, Job?"
"Much the same, sir. If he donât soon mend, heâll end, sir; and thatâs all about it; though I must say that that there savage, Ustane, do do her best for him, almost like a baptised Christian. She is always hanging round and looking after him, and if I ventures to interfere itâs awful to see her; her hair seems to stand on end, and she curses and swears away in her heathen talkâat least I fancy she must be cursing, from the look of her."
"And what do you do then?"
"I make her a perlite bow, and I say, 'Young woman, your position is one that I donât quite understand, and canât recognise. Let me tell you that I has a duty to perform to my master as is incapacitated by illness, and that I am going to perform it until I am incapacitated too,' but she donât take no heed, not sheâonly curses and swears away worse than ever. Last night she put her hand under that sort of nightâshirt she wears and whips out a knife with a kind of a curl in the blade, so I whips out my revolver, and we walks round and round each other till at last she bursts out laughing. It isnât nice treatment
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