She realized dimly that there was no personal thing behind his cry, that countless myriads of Mannings had “My God!”-ed with an equal gusto at situations as flatly apprehended. She refused to sleep in the same room with him one night, kicking him in the shins. ” He released her hand and talked in eager undertones against an auditory background of urgency and distress. Women! He is always chanting the praise of some discovery; sometimes it will be a native, often a white woman out of the stews. ’ ‘That’s odd. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. " The young woman laid a finger on her lips, cautioning O'Higgins to silence. "Bring him out, Quilt. She became aware of the modelling of his ear, of the muscles of his neck and the textures of the hair that came off his brow, the soft minute curve of eyelid that she could just see beyond his brow; she perceived all these familiar objects as though they were acutely beautiful things. He was full of fabulous stories, not just tales of his own past in Rome but wonderful fables from the mysterious Orient and the ancient Greeks, old jokes and yarns that only he remembered. ” She trailed off as the smell hit her nose. Sheila was a stout woman, her bosoms huge, her face 110 wide and square. He had almost forced himself upon her one night after a particularly bloody raid of a thatched cottage. It may be a long string, long enough if you like to tangle up all sorts of people; but there it is! If the paymaster pulls, home she must go.
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