Capitolo 88
"Because, clearly!" Called Edgarton, some eagerly, from the window.
Laboriously Barton returned and reread the sentence to him.
"Oh--oh, yes", he granted lamely.
"Paleontologically,"
he started again all on. "Oh, dear, no!" he interrupted him. "ME
was more distant long that that!--The absence of sea saurians? Oh, yes!
"The absence of sea saurians,"
him taken back glibly,
"Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs--so abundant in the--in the
Cretaceous--of Ammonites and Belemnites,"
he persisted--heroically. Halfheartedly, stumblingly, without a glint
of understanding, his/her puzzled mind it worried on and on, his/her whole
mental energy assembled him on the solo purpose to try to
you pronounce the terrible words.
"Of Rudistes, Inocerami--Trios--Trigonias,"
the horrible paragraph tortured on...
"From the reduction marked in the--Brachiopods compared
with the they richly developed now Gasteropods and--and
sinupalliate--Lamellibranchs,"--
he twisted and it twisted first his/her confused eyes.
Every sentence was a struggle; more than one of the words that he was
forced to spell out only to tall voice some self-defence pure and simple; and always
against Eve the small intermittent sign of Edgarton of encouragement was
balanced that sound that sniffs hateful of surprise and contempt from the
table of orchid in the window.
Desperately he ignored some lines to the next a little family words that
satisfied his/her eye.
"The flora of Neozoic,"
he read,
"it mainly consists of--of Angio--Angiosper--"
Still smiling, but separately pale around the edges of the smile, him
beaten down the handful of papers on his/her knee. "If it doesn't really do
does some difference where we start, Miss Eve", he said, "for Sky
cause--start in some other place!"
"Oh--every right", small sing-songed Eve Edgarton.
Quickly Barton turned him to another page and another, and
another. Wryly he tasted strange sentence after strange sentence. Then
suddenly its marvelous and whole face was garlanded again in smiles.
"Three superfamilieses of it goes in search of turtle,"