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At
first
I
had
a
shivering
horror
of
the
brutes
,
felt
all
too
keenly
that
they
were
still
brutes
;
but
insensibly
I
became
a
little
habituated
to
the
idea
of
them
,
and
moreover
I
was
affected
by
Montgomery
's
attitude
towards
them
.
He
had
been
with
them
so
long
that
he
had
come
to
regard
them
as
almost
normal
human
beings
.
His
London
days
seemed
a
glorious
,
impossible
past
to
him
.
Only
once
in
a
year
or
so
did
he
go
to
Arica
to
deal
with
Moreau
's
agent
,
a
trader
in
animals
there
.
He
hardly
met
the
finest
type
of
mankind
in
that
seafaring
village
of
Spanish
mongrels
.
The
men
aboard-ship
,
he
told
me
,
seemed
at
first
just
as
strange
to
him
as
the
Beast
Men
seemed
to
me
,
--
unnaturally
long
in
the
leg
,
flat
in
the
face
,
prominent
in
the
forehead
,
suspicious
,
dangerous
,
and
cold-hearted
.
In
fact
,
he
did
not
like
men
:
his
heart
had
warmed
to
me
,
he
thought
,
because
he
had
saved
my
life
.
I
fancied
even
then
that
he
had
a
sneaking
kindness
for
some
of
these
metamorphosed
brutes
,
a
vicious
sympathy
with
some
of
their
ways
,
but
that
he
attempted
to
veil
it
from
me
at
first
.
M'ling
,
the
black-faced
man
,
Montgomery
's
attendant
,
the
first
of
the
Beast
Folk
I
had
encountered
,
did
not
live
with
the
others
across
the
island
,
but
in
a
small
kennel
at
the
back
of
the
enclosure
.
The
creature
was
scarcely
so
intelligent
as
the
Ape-man
,
but
far
more
docile
,
and
the
most
human-looking
of
all
the
Beast
Folk
;
and
Montgomery
had
trained
it
to
prepare
food
,
and
indeed
to
discharge
all
the
trivial
domestic
offices
that
were
required
.
It
was
a
complex
trophy
of
Moreau
's
horrible
skill
,
--
a
bear
,
tainted
with
dog
and
ox
,
and
one
of
the
most
elaborately
made
of
all
his
creatures
.
It
treated
Montgomery
with
a
strange
tenderness
and
devotion
.
Sometimes
he
would
notice
it
,
pat
it
,
call
it
half-mocking
,
half-jocular
names
,
and
so
make
it
caper
with
extraordinary
delight
;
sometimes
he
would
ill-treat
it
,
especially
after
he
had
been
at
the
whiskey
,
kicking
it
,
beating
it
,
pelting
it
with
stones
or
lighted
fusees
.
But
whether
he
treated
it
well
or
ill
,
it
loved
nothing
so
much
as
to
be
near
him
.
I
say
I
became
habituated
to
the
Beast
People
,
that
a
thousand
things
which
had
seemed
unnatural
and
repulsive
speedily
became
natural
and
ordinary
to
me
.
I
suppose
everything
in
existence
takes
its
colour
from
the
average
hue
of
our
surroundings
.
Montgomery
and
Moreau
were
too
peculiar
and
individual
to
keep
my
general
impressions
of
humanity
well
defined
.
I
would
see
one
of
the
clumsy
bovine-creatures
who
worked
the
launch
treading
heavily
through
the
undergrowth
,
and
find
myself
asking
,
trying
hard
to
recall
,
how
he
differed
from
some
really
human
yokel
trudging
home
from
his
mechanical
labours
;
or
I
would
meet
the
Fox-bear
woman
's
vulpine
,
shifty
face
,
strangely
human
in
its
speculative
cunning
,
and
even
imagine
I
had
met
it
before
in
some
city
byway
.
Yet
every
now
and
then
the
beast
would
flash
out
upon
me
beyond
doubt
or
denial
.
An
ugly-looking
man
,
a
hunch-backed
human
savage
to
all
appearance
,
squatting
in
the
aperture
of
one
of
the
dens
,
would
stretch
his
arms
and
yawn
,
showing
with
startling
suddenness
scissor-edged
incisors
and
sabre-like
canines
,
keen
and
brilliant
as
knives
.
Or
in
some
narrow
pathway
,
glancing
with
a
transitory
daring
into
the
eyes
of
some
lithe
,
white-swathed
female
figure
,
I
would
suddenly
see
(
with
a
spasmodic
revulsion
)
that
she
had
slit-like
pupils
,
or
glancing
down
note
the
curving
nail
with
which
she
held
her
shapeless
wrap
about
her
It
is
a
curious
thing
,
by
the
bye
,
for
which
I
am
quite
unable
to
account
,
that
these
weird
creatures
--
the
females
,
I
mean
--
had
in
the
earlier
days
of
my
stay
an
instinctive
sense
of
their
own
repulsive
clumsiness
,
and
displayed
in
consequence
a
more
than
human
regard
for
the
decency
and
decorum
of
extensive
costume
.
My
inexperience
as
a
writer
betrays
me
,
and
I
wander
from
the
thread
of
my
story
.
After
I
had
breakfasted
with
Montgomery
,
he
took
me
across
the
island
to
see
the
fumarole
and
the
source
of
the
hot
spring
into
whose
scalding
waters
I
had
blundered
on
the
previous
day
.
Both
of
us
carried
whips
and
loaded
revolvers
.
While
going
through
a
leafy
jungle
on
our
road
thither
,
we
heard
a
rabbit
squealing
.
We
stopped
and
listened
,
but
we
heard
no
more
;
and
presently
we
went
on
our
way
,
and
the
incident
dropped
out
of
our
minds
.
Montgomery
called
my
attention
to
certain
little
pink
animals
with
long
hind-legs
,
that
went
leaping
through
the
undergrowth
.
He
told
me
they
were
creatures
made
of
the
offspring
of
the
Beast
People
,
that
Moreau
had
invented
.
He
had
fancied
they
might
serve
for
meat
,
but
a
rabbit-like
habit
of
devouring
their
young
had
defeated
this
intention
.
I
had
already
encountered
some
of
these
creatures
,
--
once
during
my
moonlight
flight
from
the
Leopard-man
,
and
once
during
my
pursuit
by
Moreau
on
the
previous
day
.
By
chance
,
one
hopping
to
avoid
us
leapt
into
the
hole
caused
by
the
uprooting
of
a
wind-blown
tree
;
before
it
could
extricate
itself
we
managed
to
catch
it
.
It
spat
like
a
cat
,
scratched
and
kicked
vigorously
with
its
hind-legs
,
and
made
an
attempt
to
bite
;
but
its
teeth
were
too
feeble
to
inflict
more
than
a
painless
pinch
.
It
seemed
to
me
rather
a
pretty
little
creature
;
and
as
Montgomery
stated
that
it
never
destroyed
the
turf
by
burrowing
,
and
was
very
cleanly
in
its
habits
,
I
should
imagine
it
might
prove
a
convenient
substitute
for
the
common
rabbit
in
gentlemen
's
parks
.
We
also
saw
on
our
way
the
trunk
of
a
tree
barked
in
long
strips
and
splintered
deeply
.
Montgomery
called
my
attention
to
this
.
"
Not
to
claw
bark
of
trees
,
that
is
the
Law
,
"
he
said
.
"
Much
some
of
them
care
for
it
!
"
It
was
after
this
,
I
think
,
that
we
met
the
Satyr
and
the
Ape-man
.
The
Satyr
was
a
gleam
of
classical
memory
on
the
part
of
Moreau
,
--
his
face
ovine
in
expression
,
like
the
coarser
Hebrew
type
;
his
voice
a
harsh
bleat
,
his
nether
extremities
Satanic
.
He
was
gnawing
the
husk
of
a
pod-like
fruit
as
he
passed
us
.
Both
of
them
saluted
Montgomery
.
