Typical Zachariah Devil-maycare and reverberant as ever. No doubt he was just the same when he was cook to Greek trader in town. In fact, I suspect that to him the Reverend father is just another sort of trader.
Cancelled ass, thinking himself to be superior to the father! And in what is he superior? Success with women, perhaps? Zachariah knows that they all admire himand is always striving for still more admiration.
He dresses sharply and walks in haughty manner that suits his tallness. And then he feeds his pride on the swarms of girls who run after him. It's maddening to think how little you need to attract them. I remember, my mother coming home from market in town, after selling her vegetables and cocoa.
How indignant she was it's so shameful. She cried, your best-looking girls go town to throw themselves at strangers ugly as sin, speaking the most outlandishtongues, men you can scarcely look at without shuddering and why?
Just money! Money! Ah, what a world! And my father replied in a buried voice, it's the times! The times shouted mother, can you imagine my child Ann with creatures like those? But perhaps the girls, who chase Zachariah aren't drawn by his tallness or his leather shoes.
Perhaps they're only after childish things, a bit of bread or a pot of jam knowing that he's a cook. My father often says women are like children in their desires. And after all too can boast a little.
Plenty of women turn to look at me especially when I'm dressed in all white but I'm not like Zachariah who doesn't know women are simply children.
Zachariah ____________
A. Was the cook of a trader B. Worked for a priest C. Worked for the speaker's mother D. Was a rich man E. Was a handsome man
