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Now he opened them, wide; there came into them the former staring horror. He became possessed by uncontrollable agitation, half raising himself in bed. Words came from his quivering lips as if they were only drawn from him by the force of his anguish. 'The beetle's going to kill Miss Lindon. A momentary paroxysm seemed to shake the very foundations of his being. His whole frame quivered.
"Allah sees the black beetle in the black stone, and the black rock. Is not that written in the Koran?" he asked. Then he translated the beetle's name into Latin, and said a great deal upon the creature's nature and history. The second person, who was older and a scholar, proposed to carry the beetle home, as they wanted just such good specimens as this.
I didn't know there was any harm in it. And Wray major borrowed twopence from me when my uncle sent me a post-office order I cashed it at Keyte's for five bob; but he'll pay me back before the holidays. We didn't know there was anything wrong in it." They waded through hours of this kind of thing, but found no usury, or anything approaching to Beetle's gorgeous scale of interest.
A mind disposed to lunacy would readily be led away by such suggestions especially if chiming in with favorite preconceived ideas and then I called to mind the poor fellow's speech about the beetle's being "the index of his fortune."
This hole seemed just of a size to suit the beetle's purpose, and he proceeded to enter for the purpose of snuggling up and taking a good long nap to ease the dull aching he probably felt in his bruised head.
The Goliath Beetle, he is thinking, would make rather a fit supper for the Giant Toad. This because he has never seen the beetle. His mind might be set at rest by an introduction to Goliath, but the acquaintanceship would do no good to the beetle's morals.
"Don't take any notice." The boys came nearer, shouting an opprobrious word. At last they moved to windward, ostentatiously holding their noses. "That's pretty," said Beetle. "They'll be sayin' our house stinks next." When they returned from the baths, damp-headed, languid, at peace with the world, Beetle's forecast came only too true.
'Member that. I'll tickle you up with a stump. You'll have to blub, Beetle." "Right O! I'll work up to it in half a shake," said Beetle. "Now begin and remember the bleatin' o' the kid." "Shut up, you brutes! Let me up! You've nearly cut my knees off. Oh, you are beastly cads! Do shut up. 'Tisn't a joke!" Beetle's protest was, in tone, a work of art. "Give it to him, Turkey! Kick him!
It was now afternoon, the sun being behind the two vessels as they headed for the harbour. "The beetle's little joke shall soon be over," thought Jasper, without any great animosity. As a seaman well acquainted with that part of the world, a casual glance was enough to tell him what was being done. "Hallo," he thought, "he is going through Spermonde Passage.
I shall take the silent beetle's place in the witness box, cross-examining myself in all simplicity of soul, as I do the animal, and asking myself whence that one of my instincts which stands out above the others is derived.
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