Read "The Blue Lagoon" by H. De Vere Stacpoole online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
The idea of spiritual life must be innate in the heart of man, for all that terrible night, when the children lay huddled together in the little hut in the chapparel, the fear that filled them was that their old friend might suddenly darken the entrance and seek to lie down beside them.
They did not speak about him. Something had been done to him; something had happened. Something terrible had happened to the world they knew. But they dared not speak of it or question each other.