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From: | Patty Rowland |
Subject: | [gfsd] wish boarding school |
Date: | Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:11:16 +0300 |
Well stop and watch a few minutes if you like,
Flory said.
He did notstop her, for he thought Ma Hla May quite
capable of coming backand making a scene.
There was much smutty talk about Elizabeth. The
quarrel about DrVeraswamis election had been shelved for the time
being.
It was almost as nice as being really rich,the way
people lived in India.
Drums were throbbing a little distance
away.
It was how those beastly artists that youmet
sometimes in Paris used to talk.
The Indian marriage-market, they call
it.
Sometimes a white pagoda rose from the plain like
thebreast of a supine giantess. I cant help it, I ought to have been back ages
ago.
And getting only fifteen shillings
aweek!
It was several years since he had shaved twice in
one day.
Highbrow was a bitter word in
hervocabulary.
Somehow it did not seem right oreven safe to go in
among that smelly native crowd. I cant tell you how glad I am to have met you. But
of the two parties, the doctors was much the smallerand less efficiently
libellous.
And the other, gazing after her, said curiously:Was
that a man or a woman? Well stop and watch a few minutes if you like, Flory said. I
only said itwas time to go back, thats all.
I hope I shall see you at the Club this
evening?
Youllmake such a difference to us here in
Kyauktada. On two occasions the face of an oldschoolfellow looked at Elizabeth from
the page. Yesterday I ate mylunch off Nashs Magazine to save wasting time washing
plates. When Elizabeth had been nearly two years in Paris her mother diedabruptly of
ptomaine poisoning.
It swampseverything mean and petty out of
existence. There was a gala air about the Clublounge tonight. And it would besuch
fun to go to the pwe together! Damn it, youve no right to talk about people like
that. Herfather had been less of a drunkard than his brother Tom, but he wasa man of
similar stamp. A girl who had been squatting at the back of the stage,
smoking,stepped forward into the lamplight. It was several years since he had shaved
twice in one day.
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