Page 230 - Adventures in shadow-land

“ She’s very beautiful, Uncle Job, but— but” —
and Lucy hesitated— “ I shouldn’t want any one I

cared for to love a woman like that,”
“ Waal, I can't say’s I would myself,” said Job,

(iBut this ain’t a woman, you see; it's one of
them nimps. T h e y w a V t like real human girls,

you know.' ’
“ But she is not kind,” said Lucy, with a little
shiver. “ She would see men drowning before her

eyes, and would not put out her hand to help them,
I think she took those pearl bracelets and her neck­

lace from some poor dead girl she found floating
in the sea. She wouldn’t m ind; she would only

care to dress herself with them.1'
" I won't say but that's my notion of her loo,”

said Job. “ Do you know, Lucy,” he continued,
in a lower voice, “ I can’ t help feeling as if there
was something more than common in this bit of

wood all the while I’ve been doing it? It seemed
as if ’twa’n’t me that was making of it up, but I

was jest like some kind of a machine going along
s
on some one else’s notion. Sometimes I am half

skeered at the critter m yself' 1
“ You meant to make her like Anna Jane