‘Why do you think I want a man ready to run to me with every move she
makes?’ countered Gerald. Having secured this implement, he burst from his
conductor, and, leaping into the hatch, as clowns generally spring into the clockfaces, when in pursuit of harlequin in the pantomime,—that is, back foremost,—
broke into a fit of loud and derisive laughter, kicking his heels merrily all the
time against the boards. "I am your most unhappy son. Flattened flowers aren’t
for the likes of us. ’
With difficulty, Gerald bit back a laugh. Once he chuckled aloud. He saw her, dripping with
rosy pearls, rise out of the lagoon in the dawn light: he saw her flashing to and
fro among the coco palms in the moonshine: he saw her breasting the hurricane,
her body as full of grace and beauty as the Winged Victory of the Louvre. She parted the curtains to find him standing
there. Squire and master. Mike was showing his territorial instincts, brought out by
the fact that he was drunk. ‘Eh bien, pig. She was the first to hear another car
approaching from the street, an odd occurrence in an
elementary school lot that had been abandoned for the
weekend. He tore it down just as the Wastrel rose, wavering slightly. ’
‘What?’ gasped Alderley in shock. "I can readily see,"
he said, "why you'll always be as poor as a church mouse.
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