"
"You'll do a national service, then," said Hogarth. ’
‘But, sister, I—’
‘Get along!’
Melusine gave Jack a smile as he cast a worried look at her, and nodded
dismissal. I have two Malay clerks in the store; but I'm obliged to
have a white man to watch over them, or they'd clean me out. Too intent on her search, and convinced besides that she was
quite alone, she had been an easy prey. 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. "Well, my
pretty dears," he added, "—to see your husband, eh? You must make the most of
your time. ’
‘Then you’re mad,’ Roding said flatly, and suddenly grinned. "
That satisfied something of her undefined hunger.
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