127 “But Mary Lucia, it isn’t what it looks like! She’s an old friend, there’s nothing serious going on!” Without a word, she about-faced and flew down his steps, running fast, jumping four steps at a time. It was long and narrow, a well-lit, wellventilated, quiet gallery of small tables and sinks, pervaded by a thin smell of methylated spirit and of a mitigated and sterilized organic decay. If only monsieur le baron had said nothing, or perhaps instead accepted the couple as the Valades and agreed to help them. From a bi-secting street came shouting and music. Of you, I mean. She walked down the station approach, past the neat, obtrusive offices of the coal merchant and the house agent, and so to the wicket-gate by the butcher’s shop that led to the field path to her home. A hush descended across the audience as instruments tuned, creating small ladders of fifths that collapsed abruptly, snatches of solos that disappeared and reappeared like gags in a house of mirrors. She thought of the suitcase, the seventy-seven dollars for a Greyhound ticket that had expired. She was the actress his whim had chosen to play a passive part. Tombs were desecrated, beautiful statues toppled, and the colorful shops that she had been enchanted by along the canal had been closed or burned. You know they say, as, indeed, I have just quoted already, that all bad poetry is written in a state of emotion, but I have no doubt that this is true of bad offers of marriage. "Silence!" returned Jackson, in a deep whisper; "and don't muddle your brains with any more of that Pharaoh. The man turned at the exclamation, and so did several of the bystanders; but they could not make out who had uttered it. “Where would you like to go? Are you hungry?” “No.
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