Curiosity to see
what a sing-song girl was like took possession of Ruth's thoughts. It was
a gracious gesture, she thought, as he trudged to the
Beck’s humble doorstep in his stiff blue polyester
uniform. Capes kept obstinately stiff, and spoke between his teeth. “That’s not. And Ann Veronica walked
beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she
had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together,
rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she
escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand
nights” in his company. ”
Anna looked for a moment steadily at her sister, whose face was still averted. It was
drafty and cold most of the time, but she found that she
was not nearly as sensitive to the cold as long as he was
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there to warm her up. And, lastly, to the Seven Cities o' Refuge, in the New
Mint. During the wet monsoon the west beach was
always littered. He sat in much the
same attitude, and she stood just as she had stood when he told her she could not
go to the Fadden Dance. "Well, what can you expect, guzzling poison like that?
Are you returning with us to Hong-Kong in the morning?"
"No. If I’d known,
there would have been a different story. She so wanted
to keep her memory of him fresh, so wanted to memorize
his kisses and to conjure his embrace someday when he
was mere dust in the ground.
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