CHAPTER XXIII Next morning Ruth did not refer to the episode on the sands of the lagoon. “Oh, damn!” he said. "But, as I was saying, I was most dreadfully frightened on the night of the robbery! Though so young at the time, I remember every circumstance distinctly. " "Comin'! comin'!" returned the constable, shuffling towards him. Ramage’s bitterness passed as abruptly as his aggression. But that is men all over. " "Did I hear you aright?" asked Trenchard, with startling eagerness. “YOU had to come in. But I'll be more lenient, and content myself with merely chastising you, on condition—" "You may do as you please, master," interrupted Jack, thrusting his hand into his pocket, as if in search of the knife; "but I wouldn't advise you to lay hands on me again. He was a London man of business, spending a small legacy in Paris. This was an imitation of the noises made by the carnivora at the Zoological Gardens at feeding-time; the idea was taken up by prisoner after prisoner until the whole place was alive with barkings, yappings, roarings, pelican chatterings, and feline yowlings, interspersed with shrieks of hysterical laughter. How long have you been playing?” Lucy breathed an internal sigh of relief. He saw her, dripping with rosy pearls, rise out of the lagoon in the dawn light: he saw her flashing to and fro among the coco palms in the moonshine: he saw her breasting the hurricane, her body as full of grace and beauty as the Winged Victory of the Louvre. “Just like old times,” she thought sardonically. Not a word had been exchanged between the two boys on the road.
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