She had imagined that prisons were white-tiled places, reeking of lime-wash and immaculately sanitary. But they cut it all off. Her curiosity was insatiable, her dreams filled with happy speculation over what hair color her babies would inherit. 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. The taste of his sweat was intoxicating, like sweet brandy, like blood. "Don't scourge me," she cried, trying to hide herself in the farthest corner of the cell. There were dark rims under her eyes, soft now with unshed tears. A hush descended across the audience as instruments tuned, creating small ladders of fifths that collapsed abruptly, snatches of solos that disappeared and reappeared like gags in a house of mirrors. Lucy was a hard worker and a good cook and because of those traits she and Sheila had gotten along most of the time. “I have come for an explanation,” she said. Already he was dramatizing Ruth, involving her, now in some pearl thieving adventure, now in some impossible tale of a white goddess. "The geisha and the sing-song girl are professional entertainers. But he promised to give me a couple of guineas if I'd ascertain whether it fitted your locks. "I thought you were asleep.
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