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"That's capital, my Lord," said John Mangles, "and I may add, that there is no danger whatever crossing the continent." "Monsieur Paganel," asked Lady Helena, "you have no fear then that if the poor fellows have fallen into the hands of the Indians their lives at least have been spared." "What a question? Why, madam, the Indians are not anthropophagi! Far from it.
"A white man's dog, adrift among the anthropophagi of Malaita, would experience all such sensations and, just as naturally, a white man's woman, a Wife-Woman, a dear, delightful Villa Kennan woman, can of herself imagine such a dog's experiences and deem his silly noises a recital of them, failing to recognize them as projections of her own delicious, sensitive, sympathetic self.
"The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders," when closely looked for, turned out to be Red Indians of a type which varied but little throughout the entire vast continent. Wanderers from the Old World grew weary of seeking the tropics only to sink into flowery graves.
These Parisian cockneys are sometimes real anthropophagi. I cannot conceive how men, Christians, can make such speculations." "That is true." "As for myself," continued D'Artagnan, "if I inhabited that house, on days of execution I would shut it up to the very keyholes; but I do not inhabit it." "And you let the garret for five hundred livres?" "To the ferocious cabaretier, who sub-lets it.
Shandy himself; or drinking in with my ears the Irish tar's glowing descriptions. "Of moving accidents by flood and field; And of the cannibals that each other eat; The anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders!" I was led to confess there were worse places in the world than the Liverpool Infirmary.
This settled, the party soon afterwards broke up. At midnight Lord Vargrave was fast asleep; and Mr. Howard, tossing restlessly to and fro on his melancholy couch, was revolving all the hardships that await a native of St. James's, who ventures forth among "The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders!" BUT how were these doubts to be changed into absolute certainty?
The Coal Kings, the Steel Kings and the Oil Kings of the modern world have contrived to hide the process; but in Spain the palaces of their forefathers rise in lonely and solemn grandeur just as a thousand years hence the palaces upon the Fifth Avenue side of Central Park and along Riverside Drive, not to mention those of the Schuylkill and the Delaware, may become but roosts for bats and owls, and the chronicler of the Anthropophagi, "whose heads do reach the skies," may tell how the voters of the Great Republic were bought and sold with their own money, until "Heaven released the legions north of the North Pole, and they swooped down and crushed the pulpy mass beneath their avenging snowshoes."
Likewise those Ethiopians called Ichthyophagi, or who live only on fish, who were subdued in the wars of Alexander the Great . Also the Ethiopians called Rapsii and Anthropophagi, who are in use to eat human flesh, and inhabit the regions near the mountains of the moon.
anthropophagi and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders, so do wondrous possibilities exist in the unknown and the ill-understood phenomena of nature.
This settled, the party soon afterwards broke up. At midnight Lord Vargrave was fast asleep; and Mr. Howard, tossing restlessly to and fro on his melancholy couch, was revolving all the hardships that await a native of St. James's, who ventures forth among "The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders!" BUT how were these doubts to be changed into absolute certainty?
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