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These component souls are of many and very different natures, living in territories which are to them vast continents, and rivers, and seas, but which are yet only the bodies of our other component souls; coral reefs and sponge-beds within us; the animal itself being a kind of mean proportional between its house and its soul, and none being able to say where house ends and animal begins, more than they can say where animal ends and soul begins.
The news of her recovery created the wildest joy all over the Under-world, and from tears and gloom and silence, the caves echoed with laughter, and the sponge-beds with music. Every one had on a "white face." No allusion was openly made either to monkeys, tortoises or jelly-fish. This would not have been polite.
To throw somersaults on the springy sponge-beds of the Mexican Gulf! To poke about among the dead ships and see what wonders and adventures lie inside! "And then she broke down completely, sniffling. "'Stop it! I said. 'You make me homesick. Look here: let's pretend we're sick or better still, let's pretend we're dead; and see what happens.
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