Four Frightened People Page #5

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All right.

When I finish this. No, now.

Get my breakfast, woman!

Here, you fix it down at the brook.

A man doesn't know anything about

the cut of a woman's skirt anyway.

Forever? Forever.

"To love and to cherish,

in sickness and health."

You did hear me then, didn't you?

Don't waste your time.

You'll never wear that skin.

Why not? I found a way out.

Valley, ocean, people!

Do you know what that means? Do you?

Yes. Arnold. Yes.

You'll lose him now to his wife!

His wife! You hear?

They'll shrink him

down again! They won't.

He's mine! I won't let them have him!

You're not going to tell him, do you hear?

You bet I'm going to tell him! You think

I'll let you ruin a fine man like that?

Arnold! I'll keep you quiet!

Do you think I'm gonna give up

the only thing I've ever had?

Judy. Judy, there are people

here! Wait till I show you!

Look, I found it. We're saved!

Marmalade!

"Purveyors to His Majesty

the King." God save the King!

I found the way out. The

ocean. I saw an airport!

Come on. No! No, Arnold.

Arnold, take me away. Run away with

me. Away from being found, please!

I'll be everything to you.

You told me I was everything.

But, Judy, we're saved. You

just don't realize it yet.

Laugh, girl, laugh!

Arnold, come on.

Hurry, Judy.

I suppose if it weren't

for the newspapers...

I wouldn't even have

known that this girl...

this Jones girl, was with you.

I suppose you just forgot to write.

I always tell you, Grace, he'd forget

his head if it wasn't attached onto him.

Mother, this is my

home I'm trying to save.

You've led me to believe for eight

years now that it was my home, too.

I know just how you feel.

I spent years trying to convince

myself that it's my home, too.

Couldn't you have sent some

greeting on our anniversary?

A lock of what this Stewart

Corder describes in the paper as...

"Judy's ravishing hair" or something?

From the jungle? I

couldn't find a mailbox.

I've tried to make

you understand, Grace.

None of us thought we'd

ever come out alive.

Try to think of our...

That'll do to say.

Think of you? It's me I'm thinking

of. A laughingstock among my friends.

And mine, too, Arnold!

Because you took it into your head

to dance off into some jungle...

with this notoriety-seeking girl.

Oh, I don't mean that you did anything.

Knowing you as I do, you

don't have to argue that.

No, if anything of that sort happened,

it was with this newspaper chap, not you.

But no one else will believe it,

and I shall be pointed out as...

No, Arnold, I'm afraid you will

have to give me grounds for divorce.

I have.

Arnold!

It was ghastly.

Screams of the tigers

tore at your very being...

fighting for mastery with gnawing

hunger and suffocating thirst.

On the sixth day, I found a

stream for our fainting party.

On the 11th, shot a murderous

seladang, water buffalo, to you folks.

But my ammunition was

growing scarce. Excuse me.

Would you mind getting another station?

Sure. Thank you.

I've heard Mr. Corder talk

before. Great, isn't he?

I'm sure.

I had rather a fight on my hands...

making the chief of that village

see that his men and women...

owed some consideration to the

consequences of overpopulation...

as well as consideration for each other.

And having lived for

so long in such a...

catch-as-catch-can fashion,

if you know what I mean...

they were extremely gloomy...

Excuse me, will you?

On the east by the China Sea and

on the west by the Strait of Malacca.

Geography isn't just

boundaries and statistics.

I'd like you to think of

this country we're studying...

romantically.

See Marco Polo, Spanish ships...

the sweep of green jungles...

the calls of birds...

of...

You recite, Nathan.

The Federated Malay States

have a total area of...

Of...

27,700 square miles...

with a population of...

Of...

476,000.

Its chief exports are...

tin and rubber.

But other exports are...

copra...

timber...

rice...

canned pineapples...

tapioca...

palm oil and nuts.

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