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WHEN so comes we usually wake fully to it at once Ransoes from dreamless sleep to a full consciousness of his task He found hi on a sea that was neither calo trunks of trees, told him in which direction the water lay He went to it and bathed Then, having landed again, he lay down and drank He stood for a fewhis lireatly the sunburn on one side and the pallor on the other had decreased He would hardly be christened Piebald if the Lady were now to meet him for the first time His colour had become more like ivory: and his toes, after so un to lose the craht better of himself as a human animal than he had done before He felt pretty certain that he would never again wield an un- calad that the instrument had been thus tuned up to concert pitch before he had to surrender it "When I wake up after Thy ie, I shall be satisfied," he said to himself

Presently he walked into the woods Accidentally - for he was at the h a whole cloud of the arboreal bubbles The pleasure was as sharp as when he had first experienced it, and his very stride was different as he eh this was to be his last meal, he did not even now feel it proper to look for any favourite fruit But whatyou&039;re hanged,&039; he thought whimsically as he let the empty shell drop from his hand - filled for the moment with such pleasure as seemed to make the whole world a dance &039;All said and done,&039; he thought, &039;it&039;s been worth it I have had a time I have lived in Paradise:

He went a little farther in the wood, which grew thickly hereabout, and al for at this ti &039;I shall never see her again,&039; he thought; and then, &039;I shall never again look on a female body in quite the sa down on her, as ht, if only for once, have seen the great Mother of his own race thus, in her innocence and splendour "Other things, other blessings, other glories," he murmured "But never that Never in all worlds, that God can ood use of all that happens But the loss is real" He looked at her once again and then walked abruptly past the place where she lay &039;I was right,&039; he thought, &039;it couldn&039;t have gone on It was ti like this, in and out of the dark yet coloured thickets, before he found his Eneon, just as he had first seen it, coiled about the trunk of a tree, but it also was asleep; and now he noticed that ever since he awoke he had perceived no chattering of birds, no rustling of sleek bodies or peering of brown eyes through the leafage, nor heard any noise but that of water It seemed that the Lord God had cast that whole island or perhaps that whole world into deep sleep For a ave him a sense of desolation, but ale should be left imprinted in these happya little clump of bubble trees he found himself face to face with the Un-ht as the first vision of a blood-stained chest broke on him Then he saw that of course it was not its own blood A bird, already half plucked and with beak wide open in the soundless yell of strangulation, was feebly struggling in its long clever hands Ranso before he knehat he had done So at his preparatory school ht left with all his otten that he was not fighting with gloves; what recalled hiainst the jaw-bone - it see jar all up his arm He stood still for a second under the shock of it and this gave the Un-man time to fall back about six paces It too had not liked the first taste of the encounter It had apparently bitten its tongue, for blood carne bubbling out of thethe bird

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"Put down that bird," said Ransom

"But this is very foolish," said the Un-man "Do you not knoho I am?"

"I knohat you are," said Ransom "Which of them doesn&039;t matter"

"And you think, little one," it answered, "that you can fight with ht that I&039;ve known Hi to help the recantations too late in thein concentration ca in mad-houses, or nailed on to crosses Could He help Himself?" - and the creature suddenly threw back its head and cried in a voice so loud that it seeolden skyroof must break, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani"

And the moment it had done so, Ransom felt certain that the sounds it had made were perfect Ara; it was re These were the very words spoken fro memory of the outcast creature which had heard theht forward in hideous parody; the horror made him momentarily sick Before he had recovered the Un-ale, with eyes so wide opened that they see on its scalp It had hihtly to its chest, with its arreat strips off his back His own aret no blow at it He turned his head and bit deeply into the ht arave a howl, tried to hold on, and then suddenly he was free Its defence was for an instant unready and he found hiion of its heart, faster and harder than he had supposed possible He could hear through its openout of it Then its hands ca to box It wanted to grapple He knocked its right arht it a jab on the fleshy part of the chin: at the sarabbed at its arot it held by both wrists

What followed for the next ht at all to any spectator The Un- with every ounce of power it could find in Weston&039;s body to wrench its arms free from Ransom&039;s hands, and he, with every ounce of his poas trying to retain his manacle hold round its wrists But this effort, which sent streams of sweat down the backs of both coly leisurely, and even aimless, movement of both pairs of arms Neither could for the moment hurt the other The Un-htened his arth There seemed no reason why this should ever end

Then suddenly it shot out its leg and crooked it behind his knee He was nearly taken off his feet Movements became quick and flurried on both sides Ranso the enemy&039;s left ar or at least spraining it But in the effort to do so he ht free He had just time to close his eyes before the nails tore fiercely down his cheek and the pain put an end to the blows his left was already raining on its ribs A second later - he did not know quite how it happened - they were standing apart, their chests heaving in great gasps, each staring at the other