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Updated: May 14, 2025
As they set off in the face of a rain-whipped wind, he said, "Take my arm, Leila the other side the sound arm." "You were in pain at dinner, John." "It is my familiar devil, the east wind, but don't talk of it." She understood him, and returned, "I will not if you don't wish me to talk of it. Where have you been all these uneasy days?" "Oh, at the mills.
His long sojourn in our land had so civilized and humanized him that he could appreciate, after a fashion, the delicate pleasures that are known to us and that are denied to those that abide in his frozen, fog-bound, rain-whipped island the delights of fine eating, fine drinking, fine living, fine loving.
"Which as a roole," said the Old Cattleman, "I speaks with deference an' yields respects to whatever finds its source in nacher, but this yere weather simply makes sech attitoode reedic'lous, an' any encomiums passed thar-on would sound sarkastic." Here my friend waved a disgusted hand towards the rain-whipped panes and shook his head.
Carmen started from sleep to find her heart throbbing so that the couch shook with it. Night was growing gray; the door had just been opened and slammed again. Through the rain-whipped panes she discerned the passing shape of Feliu, making for the beach a broad and bearded silhouette, bending against the wind.
Here, while my three fellow-passengers went below, I stood gazing at the rain-whipped illimitable waters ahead. Where is the boy who has not dreamed of the cannibal isles, those strange, fantastic places over the rim of the world, where naked brown men move like shadows through unimagined jungles, and horrid feasts are celebrated to the "boom, boom, boom!" of the twelve-foot drums?
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