![]() Monygham was a prodigal either of laughter or of words. Monygham-for instance-whose short, hopeless laugh expressed somehow an immense mistrust of mankind. "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. 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. ![]() ![]() Clearly he was one of those invaluable subordinates whom to possess is a legitimate cause of boasting. ![]() Previous Chapter Next Chapter I - CHAPTER SIXĪt 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. ![]()
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