[A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookA Daughter of the Snows CHAPTER XIX 3/29
No disorder; no confused mingling of records; no devious and interminable impress of complex emotions, tangled theories, and bewildering abstractions--nothing but simple facts, neatly classified and conveniently collated.
Unerringly from the stores of the past she picked and chose and put together in the instant present, till obscurity dropped from the woman before her, and she knew her, word and deed and look and history. "Much better you go 'way quickety-quick," How-ha informed her. "Miss Welse.
I wish to see her." The strange woman spoke in firm, even tones which betokened the will behind, but which failed to move How-ha. "Much better you go," she repeated, stolidly. "Here, take this to Frona Welse, and--ah! would you!" (thrusting her knee between the door and jamb) "and leave the door open." How-ha scowled, but took the note; for she could not shake off the grip of the ten years of servitude to the superior race. May I see you? LUCILE. So the note ran.
Frona glanced up expectantly at the Indian woman. "Um kick toes outside," How-ha explained.
"Me tell um go 'way quickety-quick? Eh? You t'ink yes? Um no good.
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