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I wanted to be very just. If you should wish still to wait, I would engage she shouldnt see me. No, no: its the place itself. She must leave it. She held me a moment with heavy eyes, then brought out the rest. Your ideas the right one. I myself, miss Well? I cant stay. The look she gave me with it made me jump at possibilities. You mean that, since yesterday, you have seen? She shook her head with dignity. Ive heard! Heard? From that childhorrors! There! she sighed with tragic relief. On my honor, miss, she says things! But at this evocation she broke down; she dropped, with a sudden sob, upon my sofa and, as I had seen her do before, gave way to all the grief of it. It was quite in another manner that I, for my part, let myself go. Oh, thank God! She sprang up again at this, drying her eyes with a groan. Thank God? It so justifies me! It does that, miss! I couldnt have desired more emphasis, but I just hesitated. Shes so horrible? I saw my colleague scarce knew how to put it. Really shocking. And about me? About you, misssince you must have it. Its beyond everything, for a young lady; and I cant think wherever she must have picked up The appalling language she applied to me? I can, then! I broke in with a laugh that was doubtless significant enough. It only, in truth, left my friend still more grave. Well, perhaps I ought to alsosince Ive heard some of it before! Yet I cant bear it, the poor woman went on while, with the same movement, she glanced, on my dressing table, at the face of my watch. But I must go back. I kept her, however. Ah, if you cant bear it! How can I stop with her, you mean? Why, just for that: to get her away. Far from this, she pursued, far from them- She may be different? She may be free? I seized her almost with joy. Then, in spite of yesterday, you believe In such doings? Her simple description of them required, in the light of her expression, to be carried no further, and she gave me the whole thing as she had never done. I believe. Yes, it was a joy, and we were still shoulder to shoulder: if I might continue sure of that I should care but little what else happened. My support in the presence of disaster would be the same as it had been |
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