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“Ladies and gentlemen, MrEdgar Freemantle,
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I saw that every seat was taken but no seat was
taken because they were on their feet, they were
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domed ceiling, angels flew in airy disregard of
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one of themDario stood beside the podium, hand
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nervousness he had extended his right, and so my
return handshake was awkward and bass-ackwardsMy
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I’d said it aloud for the mike to pick up and
broadcast all over the roomI was aware of how
bright the spotlight was as Dario left me there on
my lonely perchI was aware of the microphone on
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like a cobra rising out of a snake-charmer’s
basketI was aware of bright points of light
shining on that chrome, and on the rim of the
water glass, and on the neck of the Evian bottle
next to the water glassI was aware that the
applause was starting to taper off; some of the
people were resuming their seatsSoon an
expectant silence would replace the applauseThey
would wait for me to beginOnly I had nothing to
sayEven my opening line had left my headThey
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The computer programmer was also unimpressed by the game: “I can buy software to teach me this
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Will you come to tea this afternoon and see them all? My boy Daniel
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We’re celebrating my daughter Patricia’s birthday todayAll the
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name
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figure
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mother had, and all boys, and me the last and the only one not as big
as a house Scarlett wondered which of the brothers was Jamie’s
father
No matter, she’d find out at the teaNo, not tea, the birthday
party!
For her first cousin once removedlooked up at her cousin Jamie with
carefully concealed curiosityIn the daylight of the open street the
lines and pouches beneath his eyes weren’t blended away by shadows,
the
way they were inside the storeHe was a middleaged man, running to
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Goldstein and Stanley were talking, and Brown turned to themWe don’t want to get him stirred up again
“Yeah,” Stanley agreed softly, without rancor at the reprimandHe and Goldstein had been talking about their children, eagerly, companionably, welded by the darkness
“You know,” Stanley went on, “we’re really missing the best part of themHere they are growing up, getting to understand things, and we’re not even there
“It’s hard,” Goldstein agreed”When I left, Davy could hardly talk, and now my wife tells me he carries on a conversation on the telephone just like an adultIt’s a little difficult to believe it
Stanley clucked his tongueI’m telling you, we’re missing the best part of themWhen they get older, it’ll probably never be the sameI remember when I started growing up, there wasn’t a thing my old man could tell meWhat a damn fool I was He said this modestly, almost sincerelyStanley had discovered that people liked him when he made confessions like that
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and remembered the worn, mended cloths that her aunts had in
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back to Charleston when they left on Saturday
Grandfather wouldn’t miss it, and the aunts could use itI’ll never
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Pauline would lecture me for an hour about duty to my elders”I have
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“Is there any shopping you want me to do for you?” And don’t dare,
she
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wasn’t at all sure what the Irish phrase meant, but the sound of it was
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silver sheen across the GulfIn another hour or
so that track would begin to tarnish and turn to
gold, but not yet
We trudged along the remains of Drunkard’s
Boulevard, Jack carrying the picnic basket,
Wireman the bag containing the food and the
Artisan padsSea oats
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long behind us toward the wreck of the mansion
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and dropped like a dive-bomberWe did not see the
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spotless sails were furledShe rolled from side
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starboard side: PersephoneShe appeared deserted,
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stayed deadBut Perse wasn’t dead
“My God, it could have sailed right out of your
paintings,” Jack breathedThere was a stone bench
to the right of the path, barely visible for the
bushes growing around it and the vines snaking
over its flat seatHe dropped onto it, gaping out
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Wireman stood beside Jack, shading his eyes
against the sun”Do they
see it over on Don Pedro? They don’t, do they?”
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Melly’s grave, it’s too big, she’s so tiny, her bones no bigger than a
bird’sNo! She can’t be dead, she can’t be
Scarlett’s head jerked to one side, denying the open grave, the plain
pine box being lowered into itThere were small half circle sunk into
the soft wood, marks of the hammers that had driven the nails to close
the lid above Melanie’s gentle, loving, heart-shape faceNo!
You can’t, you mustn’t do this, it’s raining, you can’t put her there
where the rain will fall on herShe feels the cold so, she mustn’t be
left in the cold rainI can’t watch, I can’t bear it, I won’t believe
she’s goneShe loves me, she is my friend, my only true friend
Melly
loves me, she wouldn’t leave me now just when I need her most
Scarlett
looked at the people surrounding the grave, and anger surged through
herNone of them care as much as I do, nor of them have lost as
much
as I haveNo one knows how much I love herMelly knows, though,
doesn’t she? She knows, I’ve got to believe she knowsThey’ll never
believe it, thoughMerriwether, or the Meades or the
Whitings or the ElsingsLook at them, bunched around India Wilkes
and
Ashley, like a flock of wet crows in mourning clothesThey’re
comforting Aunt Pittypat, all right, though everybody knows she
takes on and cries her eyes out ovoe every little thing, down to a piece
of toast that gets burntIt wouldn enter their heads that maybe I
might be needing some comforting, I was closer to Melanie than any
of them
They act as if I wasn’t even hereNobody has paid any attention to
me
at allShe knew I was there those awful two days
after Melly died, when she needed me to manage thingsThey all did,
even India, bleating like a goat”What shall we do about the
funeral, Scarlett? About the food for the callers? About the coffin?
The pallbearers? The cemetery plot? The inscription on the
headstone?
The notice in the paper? Now they’re leaning all over each other,
weeping and wailingWell I won’t give them the satisfaction of seeing
me cry all by myself wit nobody to lean onIf I start, I might never be able
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