” He moved
himself from the recliner to the couch and patted a
cushion. That he received guests of the name of Valade at all would have surprised
anyone who knew his history. At Christmas he gave her a set of a small
edition of Meredith’s novels, very prettily bound in flexible leather, being guided
in the choice of an author, as he intimated, rather by her preferences than his
own. Now she drags me to Mass twice a week, and I have to be
in the Church Youth Group on Tuesday nights where we
study the Bible and play sports games with each other. ”
She rose up. "I suppose he'll be on his feet any day now. He stared at the woman depicted thereon for a
long moment, awe in his head. "Your father—poor imbecile!—believes we ran away
together. ‘How could you? No wonder mademoiselle is angry with you. He
went to Harvard instead. Why should she trouble herself over that young fool, who was
nothing to her; who, when he eventually sobered up, would not be able to
recognize her, or if he did, as something phantasmagorical?
Perhaps he should not apply the term "fool"; "unfortunate" might be the more
accurate application.
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