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See also: Blanchard's Metamorphoses des Insectes, Paris, 1868; J.H. Fabre's Souvenirs entomologiques, Paris, 1886; Ebrard's Etudes des moeurs des fourmis, Geneve, 1864; Sir John Lubbock's Ants, Bees, and Wasps, and so on. Forel's Recherches, pp. 244, 275, 278. Huber's description of the process is admirable. The agriculture of the ants is so wonderful that for a long time it has been doubted.
However, I will try and do something to mend this matter should I have to prepare another edition. I return you Forel's letter.
It would be an especially suitable match because of some property in the old country." The lady she spoke to smiled somewhat sourly. "Then one would be a trifle sorry for the rancher," she said. It cost Miss Deringham a good deal to talk to her hostess until she could depart without attracting attention, and she walked back to Forel's house with a blaze in her eyes.
There was silence once more, and the two objects seemed to rush together, then another roar went up. "Down. Oh, yes, the jumper's down. Harry rode straight into him the fool might have known his horse was blown. The other one's used up. Somasco's leading clear again." Alice Deringham was trembling visibly, and knew that Mrs. Forel's eyes were upon her, but that did not seem to count at all.
"Still, Thorne will know." Alton fancied his hostess intended to be kind to him, but he was glad when the dinner was over and he gravitated with the other men towards Forel's smoking-room.
J. H. Fabre believes in providence, "le bon Dieu"; Auguste Forel is a monist, a psycho-physicist. Nevertheless, Forel's observations suggest to the reader a conception of nature which is far less crushing than that suggested by the observations of Fabre. The latter, untroubled by anxieties concerning the human soul, sees in the little insects he is studying nothing more than marvellous machines.
"I heard the gunboat was at Esquimault, but did not expect to see you." Then there was a somewhat awkward silence, and Alton fancied that both men were relieved when Mrs. Forel's voice broke in, "Jack, you will look after the men, but don't keep them talking too long. We picked up Mr. Seaforth, and there are one or two more of our friends coming."
Here Forel's observations and experiments lead to the most remarkable deductions. J. H. Fabre, in a famous passage of Insect Life, tells us that "brigandage is the law in the struggle among living beings.... In nature, murder is universal. Everywhere we encounter a hook, a dagger, a spear, a tooth, nippers, pincers, a saw, horrible clamps, ..." But he exaggerates.
It was an hour later when he found his wife alone. "How is she?" he said. Mrs. Forel's eyes were hazy. "I think she has given way at last it was awful at first when she would only sit and look at me," she said; and then her voice sank a little, "How did it happen, Tom?" "Heart disease," said Forel. "The doctor is quite sure of that." "But," said Mrs. Forel, "what brought it on?"
Having also, he fancied, effectually silenced his indiscreet visitor by flinging him down-stairs, he thought no more about that affair, and spent one or two evenings pleasantly at Forel's house, where Alice Deringham greeted him with slightly reserved cordiality.
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