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 further, if she would be shriven. "He not go'n' come for me. I not go'n' go at him. Me? Tha' 's correc', Oku-San; I jus' his liddle plaything. He don' say nawthing. Jus' I thing so."

Her mother nodded.

"And when he tires of the plaything—"

She threw an imaginary something into the air.

"Yaes," whispered Purple-Eyes, humbly bowing her head; but when her face was down she smiled. It was all very sure to her. As she looked up she saw something like malevolence upon the face of her sister.

"But—also he not go'n' marry that other foraever!"

Her sister smiled unbelievingly.

"I bed you he don'!"

"Ah! What you bed?" challenged BlackEyes.

"That heart in my bosom!" answered Purple-Eyes.

did not reach the end of his ante-Benedick wanderings until a year later.