He just seemed to have
no interest, consumed with the hunt or his newfound
friend, Sebastianus, who supposedly would enable him to
expand his political ties to Rome. “Fighting goes with loads of its own baggage, John. Who
could guarantee a safer existence outside Florence?
That Sebastian seemed to have a weird immunity to
the Pestilence was a trait that went unquestioned,
unanswered. And if he
didn’t, what was the good of seeing him?
“I wish he was a woman,” she said, “then I could make him my friend. "I find I was in
error. At any rate he made it very clear that night that there was an ineradicable
discord in life, a jarring something that must shatter all her dreams of a way of
living for women that would enable them to be free and spacious and friendly
with men, and that was the passionate predisposition of men to believe that the
love of women can be earned and won and controlled and compelled. "Couldn't you speak to him?"
"What?—and be insulted for my trouble? No, thank you!"
"That is it. ”
She gave herself permission now to look at this squarely. It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the
others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the
blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum
things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his
mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential
admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and
general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in
Marylebone. Clement's church. "
"I can't! I can't—not now!"
"Bat!—can't you see that she's the kind who would understand and forgive? She
loves you.
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