Soot was everywhere, for the lamp would not stay trimmed in the gale. At the sound of the door Ann Veronica uncovered a tearless face, and with one swift movement assumed a conversational attitude. "Well, what can you expect, guzzling poison like that? Are you returning with us to Hong-Kong in the morning?" "No. Which, let me assure you, villain, will not be so far away. " "He's coming!" cried Jack, stamping his foot, with vexation. We are alone and we can say and do what we please. There was the world besides, looming darker and larger. The little streaks upon the germinating area of an egg, the nervous movements of an impatient horse, the trick of a calculating boy, the senses of a fish, the fungus at the root of a garden flower, and the slime upon a sea-wet rock—ten thousand such things bear their witness and are illuminated. Light flooded the place. In passing, why do we fear death? For our sins? Rather, isn't it the tremendous inherent human curiosity to know what is going to happen to-morrow that causes us to wince at the thought of annihilation? A subconscious resentment against the idea of entering darkness while our neighbour will proceed with his petty affairs as usual? "It's nip and tuck," said the doctor; "but we'll pull him through. What a God-forsaken fool he was! And dimly, out there somewhere in the South Seas—the beach! Already he sensed the fascination of the inevitable; and with this fascination came the idea of haste, to get there quickly and have done.
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