I don’t want a family in the suburbs and Christmases at the Florida house and summers at the Hamptons. But I shan't let him off thus. 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 has been very humiliating. Wood fared still worse. He had heard everything. The latter walked carelessly towards the hatch, and leaning his back against the place whence the spike had been removed, so as completely to hide it, continued smoking his pipe as coolly as if nothing had happened. He did not love Ruth. But his astonishment would have been great indeed had he known that not even her father had ever caressed her, either with lips or with hands. "It was silly. She longed to enjoy human food as he did. Anna jumped into a waiting hansom. As he gazed down into the courts of the prison, he could not help shuddering, lest a false step might precipitate him below. Opening a pair of large black eyes, the child fixed them for an instant upon Wood, and then, alarmed by the light, uttered a low and melancholy cry, which, however, was speedily stilled by the caresses of his mother, towards whom he extended his tiny arms, as if imploring protection.
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