She moved then, fast, taking refuge behind a Chinese screen that was set beside the four-poster at the back of the room. She had nothing to say for herself. ‘It is not for myself, you understand,’ pursued the man, in an unctuous tone that sickened the general, ‘but for this poor one. Fortescue raised his eyebrows and assumed a light-comedy expression. She shrugged her shoulders. “I am a fool,” he said. Spurling stood her negro attendant, Caliban; a hideous, misshapen, malicious monster, with broad hunched shoulders, a flat nose, and ears like those of a wild beast, a head too large for his body, and a body too long for his legs. “Remember,” he said, “you are not by any means a dying man now, but you’ll never pull through if you don’t husband your strength. He opened the door for her with a faint disagreeable smile. A failure! She must write herself down a failure! At her age, with her ambitions, with her artistic temperament and creative instincts, she was yet to be denied all coherent means of expression. She had refused to eat human beings when she had first learned her fate. The floor was thickly strewn with sawdust and shavings; and across the room ran a long and wide bench, furnished at one end with a powerful vice; next to which three nails driven into the boards served, it would appear from the lump of unconsumed tallow left in their custody, as a substitute for a candlestick. But she did not bother her head very much about her relations with these sympathizers. A door in this house opened upon the yard.
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