It is a nuisance to have to break off what you're doing and come all the way back from the village.
After all, he didn't know for certain that Anna had come from the village.
"This good woman has come from the village, sent by God to draw water for us to drink."
"That is what I did, then, coming back from the village?"
I have an army of women coming in from the village to do all that.
The rest will come from the village and private sources.
Hardly any human being would come this way save an Indian from the village.
Just then all the others came round the corner of the road from the village.
As they spoke, sounds of music came through the evening air from the village.
They left him to the dogs that had come up from the village.