He was damned if he knew what to do. “Hospital? What for? What’s the matter with me?” Courtlaw’s voice sank to a whisper. They could no longer stay in one place. Everybody who’s going to develop into a woman. To be sure, Ruth had dimly been aware of this; but now for the first time she was made painfully conscious of it. Why did the beggar hang on down there, when he could have enjoyed all that civilization had to offer? Yes, he would be mighty glad to see McClintock; and the sooner he came the better. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. Annabel watched her with wide-open, terrified eyes. ‘Imbecile. This I know, for the Valades have taught me so, and the nuns also. Traps, set with peculiar cunning; she had encountered them everywhere. If she had any idea at all, it was something she dimly recalled from her books: something celestially beautiful, with a happy ending.
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