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One day Dick cli Mada, peeped in There were several pale green eggs in it He did not disturb theain, and the bird resu had happened Such an occurrence would have terrified a bird used to the ways of men, but here the birds were so fearless and so full of confidence that often they would follow E at her through the leaves, lighting quite close to her--once, even, on her shoulder

The days passed Dick had lost his restlessness: his wish to wander had vanished He had no reason to wander; perhaps that was the reason why

In all the broad earth he could not have found anythinga half-naked savage followed dog-like by hisa pair of lovers wandering on the reef They had in a pathetic sort of way atte creeper taken from the wood and trained over the entrance

E, such as it was; Dick helped her noays He talked to her no longer in short sentences flung out as if to a dog; and she, al to her from childhood, half showed him her mind It was a curious mind: the mind of a dreamer, alue shapes born of things she had heard about or dreahts about the sea and stars, the flowers and birds

Dick would listen to her as she talked, as a ht listen to the sound of a rivulet His practical mind could take no share in the dreams of his other half, but her conversation pleased hiether, absorbed in thought He was adled him in its meshes; he would stroke it, so to speak, with his eyes, and then pull her close to hi He breathed her as one does the perfume of a rose

Her ears were small, and like little white shells He would take one between finger and thu at the lobe of it, or trying to flatten out the curved part Her breasts, her shoulders, her knees, her little feet, every bit of her, he would examine and play with and kiss She would lie and let hiht, of which he was the object, then all at once her arht of day, under the shadow of the artu leaves, with no one to watch except the bright-eyed birds in the leaves above