"Stay!" cried Wood, "this is a most perplexing business—if you really are privy
to the affair——"
"We'll talk of it to-morrow, Sir," returned Jackson, cutting him short. “You mean to tell me” he said, “that you have a
lover? While I have been keeping you! Yes—keeping you!”
This view of life he hurled at her as if it were an offensive missile. His expression altered. But you shall swing, rascal,—you shall
swing. From this perturbed state he was roused by thoughts
of his mother, and fancying he heard her gentle voice urging him on to fresh
exertion, he started up. Her family had hosted a feast in his honor for which
they had taken weeks to prepare: with braised capons and
lobster sausages and all sorts of delicious spiced stews her
mother had made from secret recipes. How I envied Gianfrancesco on his
wedding night, how I writhed in agony just thinking
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about his intimacies with you! Then you became
pregnant, and there he was, posturing and gloating like
the rest of the family, my divinations of a boy in your
womb pronounced. She walked straight across to the wardrobe and opened it.
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