"Rather a devil," groaned her son, "to have done this. She found herself asking more and more curiously, “Why, on the principle
of the survival of the fittest, have I any sense of beauty at all?” That enabled her
to go on thinking about beauty when it seemed to her right that she should be
thinking about biology. One keeps rules in
order to be one’s self. "
So she told him the adventure of the two beachcombers in the typhoon, and how
they became regenerated by their magnificent courage. It'll be your own fault if you
don't soon get another and a proper young man into the bargain. Wood had the
advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a
period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the
same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the
shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special
recommendation in female eyes. Arrived at her side, it
was soon evident, from the throng of seamen in Dutch dresses that displayed
themselves, that her crew were on the alert, and a rope having been thrown down
to the skipper, he speedily hoisted himself on deck.
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