PERCIVAL in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Percival sagged in Jack's grip.
2 Percival Wemys Madison would not shut up.
3 Something strange was happening to Percival.
4 Jack listened to Percival's answer and then let go of him.
5 Percival muttered something and the assembly laughed again.
6 The littluns pushed Percival forward, then left him by himself.
7 They began to cry in sympathy, two of them almost as loud as Percival.
8 He downed badly; but Percival and the others noticed and sniffed and laughed.
9 Only Percival began to whimper with an eyeful of sand and Maurice hurried away.
10 Percival finished his whimper and went on playing, for the tears had washed the sand away.
11 Percival, released, surrounded by the comfortable presence of humans, fell in the long grass and went to sleep.
12 Johnny watched him with china-blue eyes; then began to fling up sand in a shower, and presently Percival was crying again.
13 Henry was a bit of a leader this afternoon, because the other two were Percival and Johnny, the smallest boys on the island.
14 Percival was mouse-colored and had not been very attractive even to his mother; Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural belligerence.
15 The littlun Percival had early crawled into a shelter and stayed there for two days, talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused.
16 Percival had gone off, crying, and Johnny was left in triumphant possession of the castles, He sat there, crooning to himself and throwing sand at an imaginary Percival.
17 Behind the four boys, the smoke moved gently along the horizon; and on the beach, Henry and Johnny were throwing sand at Percival who was crying quietly again; and all three were in complete ignorance of the excitement.
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