Aylward Edward Dingle

The Pirate Woman Aylward Edward Dingle

A great unrest brooded over mountain and forest; the blue Caribbean lay hushed andglaring, as if held in leash by a power greater than that which ordered its daily ebb andflow. Men moved or stood beneath the trees on the cliffside in attitudes of supreme awe orgrowing uneasiness, according to their kind: for among them were numbered Spaniard andBriton, creole and mulatto, Carib and octoroon, with coal-black negroes enough tooutnumber all the rest-and it was upon these last that profound awe sat oppressively.