But there was a greatfascination for me, in
Cornwall.
The country appeals to me that way: to lose
oneselfand have done with this side of life.
Anyhow, no sort of POLITICS will help the country,
said Somers.
Nowshes not keeping it very steady, and the worlds
sick of being bossed,anyhow.
But still she sat with her hands folded, lost in
meditation. If I like a man, slap out, at the firstsight, Id trust him into hell, I
would. Somersthinking he can live out here, and work with the Australians. A gulf
there was between them, really, between the Somers and theCallcotts. And if you
dontknow, it would only be words my trying to tell.
She was the queen that slumbers somewhere in every
Cornish imagination,the queen ungrudged. Give her Billyers chocolates; or
else:Billyers chocolates sweeten the home.
And he looked forthe most part down at the ground.
You always turn away from them and hate them.
Somers looked up wondering, and met the meditative
dark eyes of theother man resting on his face.
Ive got to struggle with men and the world of men
for a time yet. No, my father was a surveyor, sowas his father before him. He felt
he had made a faux pas, and was rebuffed.
It was dark, so they could not see his face. None
the less, he retorted, I do want to do something along with men. That is, they
walked to one of the ferry stations, and tookthe ferry steamer to Mosmans Bay.
Theyve asked us to go with them to Mullumbimby in a fortnight. So the two men did
not get a start till eleven oclock. But, laughed Harriet, arent you glad then? Ay,
Ive been to Padstow, said William James. He looked at Somers with dark, burning,
questioning eyes. Ive got another set of eyes inside me somewhere that can tellreal
differences, when there are any.
But that may only be manner, said
Harriet.
He had hisknees wide apart, and his hands clasped
between them. None the less, he retorted, I do want to do something along with men.
And its fate thatsets you and me here at this minute playing chess. If it wont, then
nothing will, retorted Jaz. The number Ive taken out, laughed Harriet.