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Nearly all of the more prominent families owned freezers while many of those who were freezerless did not go to church, anyway. From which it would seem that, in Bainbridge at least, the righteous had prospered. On this hot morning, therefore, Desire collected Mr. McClintock's belief alone.
To go to Hoddy, to smother him with kisses and embraces in this hour of triumph! To save herself from committing the act the thought of which was positive hypnotism she began the native dance. He seized a tray, squatted on the floor, and imitated the tom-tom. It was a mad half-hour. "Well, lad, supposing you read what the editor has to say?" was McClintock's suggestion, when the frolic was over.
He knew that tragedy was as blind as justice, that it struck the child and the grown-up impartially. "You poor child! you can have all the dogs on the island, if you want them! Come along to the kitchen, and we'll give Rollo a tubbing." And thus their domesticity at McClintock's began with the tubbing of a stray yellow dog.
There were groves of cultivated guava, orange, lemon, and pomegranate. The oranges were of the Syrian variety, small but filled with scarlet honey. This fruit was McClintock's particular pride. He had brought the shrubs down from Syria, and, strangely enough, they had prospered. "Unless you have eaten a Syrian orange," he was always saying, "you have only a rudimentary idea of what an orange is."
Flesh and blood, vivid, alluring; she was no longer the symbol, therefore she had become, as in the twinkling of an eye, an utter stranger. And this utter stranger ... loved him! He had no reason to doubt McClintock's statement; the Scot had solved the riddle why Ruth Enschede had married Howard Spurlock. All emotions laid hold of him, but none could he stay long enough to analyze it.
She let them fall and sped to the companion, where she stood for a moment, the moonlight giving her a celestial touch. Then she went below. Spurlock bent his head to the rail. The twists in his brain had suddenly straightened out; he was normal, wholly himself; and he knew now exactly what he had done. McClintock's island was twelve miles long and eight miles wide, with the shape of an oyster.
Besides, by the time they were off his hands, old McClintock would be dropping in to have his liver renovated. All at once he recollected the fact that McClintock's copra plantation was down that way, somewhere in the South Seas; had an island of his own. Perhaps he had heard of this Enschede.
"What's the matter with you now, fool?" demanded Mitchell. "I never so much as mentioned the girl's name in McClintock's hearing." "Trust you!" said the clerk. "You're a slimy toad, you are. You're nauseatin'. Pah! Ptth!" "McClintock repeated these rumors to Stan," said the lawyer gloatingly. "Stan called him a liar. My uncle never liked me.
McClintock finished his education at Yale in 1843, and came to Hartford on a visit that same year. I have talked with men who at that time talked with him, and felt of him, and knew he was real. One needs to remember that fact and to keep fast hold of it; it is the only way to keep McClintock's book from undermining one's faith in McClintock's actuality. As to the book.
After he had eaten dinner with Ruth, he had gone to McClintock's; and he had heard music such as he had heard only in the great concert halls. The picturesque scoundrel had the true gift; and Spurlock was filled with pity at the thought of such genius gone to pot. To use it as a passport to card-tables and gin-bottles!
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