In the morning and at night he is
dressed as he would dress in the big hotels. ”
“You do not understand me at all,” she declared. She
tucked her stick under her arm and re-read Manning’s letter. ”
She laughed. The terrific mental tension of the past few months
—that had held his bodily nourishment in a kind of strangulation—became as a
dream; and now his vitals responded rapidly to food and air. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical
outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency,
regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to
Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked
well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and
sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the
incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. It creaked slightly. ’
The gentleness in his voice nearly overset her. . But threats and entreaties—even promises were ineffectual; and
the unlucky captive, after exhausting his powers of persuasion, was compelled to
give up the point. I know he
is dead. Wood, who were,
furthermore, engaged in a little conjugal tête-à-tête of their own.
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