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"
I
shall
see
Holroyd
himself
on
my
way
back
through
the
States
,
"
said
Sir
John
.
"
I
've
ascertained
that
he
,
too
,
wants
the
railway
.
"
The
man
who
,
perhaps
disturbed
by
the
proximity
of
the
voices
,
had
arisen
from
the
ground
,
struck
a
match
to
light
a
cigarette
.
The
flame
showed
a
bronzed
,
black-whiskered
face
,
a
pair
of
eyes
gazing
straight
;
then
,
rearranging
his
wrappings
,
he
sank
full
length
and
laid
his
head
again
on
the
saddle
"
That
's
our
camp-master
,
whom
I
must
send
back
to
Sulaco
now
we
are
going
to
carry
our
survey
into
the
Sta
.
Marta
Valley
,
"
said
the
engineer
.
"
A
most
useful
fellow
,
lent
me
by
Captain
Mitchell
of
the
O.S.N.
Company
.
It
was
very
good
of
Mitchell
.
Charles
Gould
told
me
I
could
n't
do
better
than
take
advantage
of
the
offer
.
He
seems
to
know
how
to
rule
all
these
muleteers
and
peons
.
We
had
not
the
slightest
trouble
with
our
people
.
He
shall
escort
your
diligencia
right
into
Sulaco
with
some
of
our
railway
peons
.
The
road
is
bad
.
To
have
him
at
hand
may
save
you
an
upset
or
two
.
He
promised
me
to
take
care
of
your
person
all
the
way
down
as
if
you
were
his
father
.
"
This
camp-master
was
the
Italian
sailor
whom
all
the
Europeans
in
Sulaco
,
following
Captain
Mitchell
's
mispronunciation
,
were
in
the
habit
of
calling
Nostromo
.
And
indeed
,
taciturn
and
ready
,
he
did
take
excellent
care
of
his
charge
at
the
bad
parts
of
the
road
,
as
Sir
John
himself
acknowledged
to
Mrs.
Gould
afterwards
.
AT
THAT
time
Nostromo
had
been
already
long
enough
in
the
country
to
raise
to
the
highest
pitch
Captain
Mitchell
's
opinion
of
the
extraordinary
value
of
his
discovery
.
Clearly
he
was
one
of
those
invaluable
subordinates
whom
to
possess
is
a
legitimate
cause
of
boasting
.
Captain
Mitchell
plumed
himself
upon
his
eye
for
men
--
but
he
was
not
selfish
--
and
in
the
innocence
of
his
pride
was
already
developing
that
mania
for
"
lending
you
my
Capataz
de
Cargadores
"
which
was
to
bring
Nostromo
into
personal
contact
,
sooner
or
later
,
with
every
European
in
Sulaco
,
as
a
sort
of
universal
factotum
--
a
prodigy
of
efficiency
in
his
own
sphere
of
life
.
"
The
fellow
is
devoted
to
me
,
body
and
soul
!
"
Captain
Mitchell
was
given
to
affirm
;
and
though
nobody
,
perhaps
,
could
have
explained
why
it
should
be
so
,
it
was
impossible
on
a
survey
of
their
relation
to
throw
doubt
on
that
statement
,
unless
,
indeed
,
one
were
a
bitter
,
eccentric
character
like
Dr.
Monygham
--
for
instance
--
whose
short
,
hopeless
laugh
expressed
somehow
an
immense
mistrust
of
mankind
.
Not
that
Dr.
Monygham
was
a
prodigal
either
of
laughter
or
of
words
.
He
was
bitterly
taciturn
when
at
his
best
.
At
his
worst
people
feared
the
open
scornfulness
of
his
tongue
.
Only
Mrs.
Gould
could
keep
his
unbelief
in
men
's
motives
within
due
bounds
;
but
even
to
her
(
on
an
occasion
not
connected
with
Nostromo
,
and
in
a
tone
which
for
him
was
gentle
)
,
even
to
her
,
he
had
said
once
,
"
Really
,
it
is
most
unreasonable
to
demand
that
a
man
should
think
of
other
people
so
much
better
than
he
is
able
to
think
of
himself
.
"
And
Mrs.
Gould
had
hastened
to
drop
the
subject
.
There
were
strange
rumours
of
the
English
doctor
.
Years
ago
,
in
the
time
of
Guzman
Bento
,
he
had
been
mixed
up
,
it
was
whispered
,
in
a
conspiracy
which
was
betrayed
and
,
as
people
expressed
it
,
drowned
in
blood
.
His
hair
had
turned
grey
,
his
hairless
,
seamed
face
was
of
a
brick-dust
colour
;
the
large
check
pattern
of
his
flannel
shirt
and
his
old
stained
Panama
hat
were
an
established
defiance
to
the
conventionalities
of
Sulaco
.
Had
it
not
been
for
the
immaculate
cleanliness
of
his
apparel
he
might
have
been
taken
for
one
of
those
shiftless
Europeans
that
are
a
moral
eyesore
to
the
respectability
of
a
foreign
colony
in
almost
every
exotic
part
of
the
world
.
The
young
ladies
of
Sulaco
,
adorning
with
clusters
of
pretty
faces
the
balconies
along
the
Street
of
the
Constitution
,
when
they
saw
him
pass
,
with
his
limping
gait
and
bowed
head
,
a
short
linen
jacket
drawn
on
carelessly
over
the
flannel
check
shirt
,
would
remark
to
each
other
,
"
Here
is
the
Senor
doctor
going
to
call
on
Dona
Emilia
.
He
has
got
his
little
coat
on
.
"
The
inference
was
true
.
Its
deeper
meaning
was
hidden
from
their
simple
intelligence
.
Moreover
,
they
expended
no
store
of
thought
on
the
doctor
.
He
was
old
,
ugly
,
learned
--
and
a
little
"
loco
"
--
mad
,
if
not
a
bit
of
a
sorcerer
,
as
the
common
people
suspected
him
of
being
.
The
little
white
jacket
was
in
reality
a
concession
to
Mrs.
Gould
's
humanizing
influence
.
The
doctor
,
with
his
habit
of
sceptical
,
bitter
speech
,
had
no
other
means
of
showing
his
profound
respect
for
the
character
of
the
woman
who
was
known
in
the
country
as
the
English
Senora
.
He
presented
this
tribute
very
seriously
indeed
;
it
was
no
trifle
for
a
man
of
his
habits
.
Mrs.
Gould
felt
that
,
too
,
perfectly
.
She
would
never
have
thought
of
imposing
upon
him
this
marked
show
of
deference
.
She
kept
her
old
Spanish
house
(
one
of
the
finest
specimens
in
Sulaco
)
open
for
the
dispensation
of
the
small
graces
of
existence
.
She
dispensed
them
with
simplicity
and
charm
because
she
was
guided
by
an
alert
perception
of
values
.
She
was
highly
gifted
in
the
art
of
human
intercourse
which
consists
in
delicate
shades
of
self-forgetfulness
and
in
the
suggestion
of
universal
comprehension
.
Charles
Gould
(
the
Gould
family
,
established
in
Costaguana
for
three
generations
,
always
went
to
England
for
their
education
and
for
their
wives
)
imagined
that
he
had
fallen
in
love
with
a
girl
's
sound
common
sense
like
any
other
man
,
but
these
were
not
exactly
the
reasons
why
,
for
instance
,
the
whole
surveying
camp
,
from
the
youngest
of
the
young
men
to
their
mature
chief
,
should
have
found
occasion
to
allude
to
Mrs.
Gould
's
house
so
frequently
amongst
the
high
peaks
of
the
Sierra
.
