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She pours her hopes into the crop and urges Dick to invest as much as possible into a single try to make money and recoup his losses of the past year. She pressures him into growing tobacco crop.Īfter convincing Dick to plant tobacco, Mary withdraws from farm work in hopes that her husband will be able to take care of the farm successfully, mostly on his own. Now accustomed to the farm, Mary begins to exert influence over Dick, even after he recovers.
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Instantly, she fears retribution from Moses, but Moses does nothing. Mary reprimands him but then observes his bemused, even mocking indifference to her order this drives her into a rage, and she hits him savagely on the face with the sjambok. Most of the natives passively follow her instructions, however much they may resent them, but Moses, one of the strongest men, earns Mary's particular ire by speaking in English, which is generally forbidden for natives. When the workers are slow to assemble, she threatens to deduct from the pay of anyone who arrives late she ends up earning the ill will of all of them by following through on this threat. In this capacity, she heads out to the makeshift huts where they reside to call them she instinctively brings the sjambok, feeling reassured by its power. Without any other option, Mary is forced to take over the supervision of the native workers on the farm. However, Dick soon comes down with a case of malaria that leaves him bedridden for a time, despite his stubborn efforts to continue going to work while sick. For a time then, he goes to do his farm work and leaves Mary to the house, since she is repelled by the thought of having anything to do with the rough and dirty work in this state, the two share a brief period of what seems to be harmony.
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After bringing Mary back from the town, Dick becomes more affectionate towards her, in a kind of groveling appreciation of her not leaving him.