His Other Wife: A Novel — page 274: what you’re looking at

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266 THE WOLF AND AlS PREY. Verily, it seemed as if a solemn ban of excommunica- tion from the sympathies, ‘as from the society, of his kind had been pronounced against him before his time. CHAPTER XXIX. THE WOLF AND HIS PREY. There was an invisible witness to the discussion between the captain and the mate of the Madcap, which ended in the fierce Minorcan’s springing to his feet at the moment when his comrade turned to leave the state-room, and sending his ponderous, brawny arm out with a momentum that would have laid a stouter man than the old sailor prone and senseless. Hearing high words between the two officers of the- vessel, the Malay had set the door of his kitchen slightly ajar, in order to observe the better what passed between them. Although, as has already been stated, the Oriental spoke no tongue save his own, that did not signify that he understood no other, nor that, in a pinch, he was unable to convey his ideas very intelligibly by means of certain words and fragmentary sentences that he had collected in a secret repertoire of his sagacious and cunning brain against the time of need. It suited him to have Captain Valasco ; Eomicbooks.¢co