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Ever since the tragedy of six years ago there had been for--shall I call it a deep mistrust? She had never been clever; lessons had saddened and wearied her, withouther much the wiser Yet her mind was of that order into which profound truths coeaware He or she acts in such or such a way, or thinks in such and such a manner from intuition; in other words, as the outco

When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, e have ton's law of cyclones, Ellis's anatomy, and Lewer's midwifery, we have already made ourself half blind We have become hypnotized by words and names We think in words and names, not in ideas; the commonplace has triumphed, the true intellect is half crushed

Storms had burst over the island before this And what Eht be expressed by an instance

The ht the sun, or so baloon; then, with a horrid suddenness, as if sick with dissi would blacken the sun, and with a yell stretch out a hand and ravage the island, churn the lagoon into foam, beat down the coconut trees, and slay the birds And one bird would be left and another taken, one tree destroyed and another left standing The fury of the thing was less fearful than the blindness of it, and the indifference of it

One night, when the child was asleep, just after the last star was lit, Dick appeared at the doorway of the house He had been down to the water's edge and had now returned He beckoned E down the child, she did so

"Come here and look," said he

He led the way to the water; and as they approached it Ee about the lagoon Froreat stretch of grey marble veined with black Then, as she drew nearer, she saw that the dull grey appearance was a deception of the eye

The lagoon was alight and burning

The phosphoric fire was in its very heart and being; every coral branch was a torch, every fish a passing lantern The inco floor of the lagoonbehind theloorm traces