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The Delight Makers

CHAPTER VII
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Do you like her ?" and he looked at his mother pleadingly, as if asking her forgiveness and her consent to his choice.
The woman's brow clouded at the mention of a name so hateful to her.

She looked hard at her son and said in a tone of bitter reproach,-- "And you go with that girl ?" "Why not!" His face darkened also.
"Have I not told you what kind of man Tyope is ?" "The girl is no Koshare," he answered evasively.
"But her mother is, and he." Both became silent.

Okoya stared before him; his appetite was gone; he was angry, and could not eat any more.
What right had this woman, although she was his mother, to reprove him because he was fond of a girl whose father she did not like! Was the girl responsible for the deeds of her parents?
No! So he reasoned at once, and then his temper overcame him.

How could his mother dare to speak one single word against the Koshare! Had she not betrayed him to them?
In his thoughts the hatred which she pretended to display against the Koshare appeared no longer sincere; it seemed to him hypocrisy, duplicity, deception.

Such deceit could mean only the darkest, the most dangerous, designs.


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