“If you insist, it is better that I teach you than that you should blunder along and be devoured for your pains. The employment of familiars is all very well for infidels, I suppose, and you are a godless creature enough, Prunella.” Prunella acceded to this description of herself cheerfully: “I had no one to teach me better, you see.” “So you have found someone to teach you worse!” said Mak Genggang. “Well, you are a pretty, insinuating child, and you will come to a bad end, no doubt.” But she spoke with grudging approval. Mak Genggang might decry Prunella’s ways all she liked, but the same
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