After finishing his meal and having a nice conversation with the lady seated next to him, he politely excused himself and started back home, hoping that his cat was back to normal. ... Lucifer tried to sleep by Nicks feet, but instead covered half of his legs in a smothering tundra of fat and fur. ... "No stop... " Nickolai wrestled in his sleep, waking up his elongated cat. ...
Then the newlyweds went to live on Zapote Street -- and Leonardo almost immediately realized why Lydia had been so reticent and mysterious about her home life. ... When Leonardo came home from work, he must not tarry with Lydia in the bedroom chatting: both of them must come down at once to the sala and talk with their father. ... One night, unable to bear it any longer he shouted, as they rose to retire: "Lydia, you sleep with your mother tonight. ... His car had broken down and he had had it repaired and now he could not go home. ... " A younger brother, Gene offered to accompany him ho...
Summary Ralph hides in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. He thinks about the deaths of Simon and Piggy and realizes that all vestiges of civilization have been stripped from the island. He stumbles across the sow's head, the "Lord of the Flies," now merely a gleaming white skull-as white as the conch shell, he notes. Angry and disgusted, Ralph knocks the skull to the ground and takes the stake it was impaled on to use as a weapon against Jack. That night, Ralph sneaks down to the camp at the Castle Rock and finds Sam and Eric guarding the entranc...