1 A whole minute passed, and then she made a step forward.
2 There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush.
3 You would have perceived directly then how completely she was out of it.
4 'You forget, dear Charlie, that the laborer is worthy of his hire, she said, brightly.
5 Once only her eyes gleamed back at us in the dusk of the thickets before she disappeared.
6 More than once she had to wade for a bit, with twenty cannibals splashing around and pushing.
7 In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
8 Her dress was as plain as an umbrella-cover, and she turned round without a word and preceded me into a waiting-room.
9 'If she had offered to come aboard I really think I would have tried to shoot her, said the man of patches, nervously.
10 There was a low jingle, a glint of yellow metal, a sway of fringed draperies, and she stopped as if her heart had failed her.
11 She talked about 'weaning those ignorant millions from their horrid ways,' till, upon my word, she made me quite uncomfortable.
12 Two youths with foolish and cheery countenances were being piloted over, and she threw at them the same quick glance of unconcerned wisdom.
13 I left in a French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far as I could see, the sole purpose of landing soldiers and custom-house officers.
14 She rang under my feet like an empty Huntley & Palmer biscuit-tin kicked along a gutter; she was nothing so solid in make, and rather less pretty in shape, but I had expended enough hard work on her to make me love her.
15 They had started two days before in a sudden hurry up the river with the manager on board, in charge of some volunteer skipper, and before they had been out three hours they tore the bottom out of her on stones, and she sank near the south bank.
16 Suddenly she opened her bared arms and threw them up rigid above her head, as though in an uncontrollable desire to touch the sky, and at the same time the swift shadows darted out on the earth, swept around on the river, gathering the steamer into a shadowy embrace.
17 She carried her head high; her hair was done in the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to the knee, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces of glass beads on her neck; bizarre things, charms, gifts of witch-men, that hung about her, glittered and trembled at every step.
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