"You'll find all about it in the Bible if you will only take the trouble to read.

Why do you talk such rubbish about gases ?" "Because only gas, or something of the sort, could have made us imagine them." "Nonsense, Bickley! Those people were here right enough.

Didn't they eat our fruit and drink the water I brought them without ever saying thank you?
Only, they are not human.

They are evil spirits, and for my part I don't want to see any more of them, though I have no doubt Arbuthnot does, as that Glittering Lady threw her arms round his neck when she woke up, and already he is calling her by her Christian name, if the word Christian can be used in connection with her.

The old fellow had the impudence to tell us that he was a god, and it is remarkable that he should have called himself Oro, seeing that the devil they worship on the island is also called Oro and the place itself is named Orofena." "As to where they have gone," continued Bickley, taking no notice of Bastin, "I really don't know.