Capitolo 73
guest 'the cause I am a r'lation. You a called sporting gentleman got married him
Hines a' she died yesterday", says the precocious orphan.
Then Minnie Munn, beautiful, happy, life-loving Minnie whose going had made evil
us so, Our Plaza is returned to, with everything of its love of the life extinguished.
You had promised that she is be returned, in the small one, hysterical,
provocative note that she has left under the door. His/her father and mother have to wait
and not the worry. There is thousand of houses, I suppose in that it is
buried solo such letters as the goodbye of Minnie to his/her parents;
rebellious, impassioned, covetous, compassionate. Ah, well! The moth has to break
his/her chrysalis. The flower has to lacerate its obligations toward the light. Little
Minnie was following the stage." A garish and dangerous stage that was,
the whereon Innocence plays a part as sorry as it is brief. And now she was
making his/her exit without applause. Memory returned a portrait of
Minnie as me I had seen her before, an ago pee thing, while flashing and smiling at the
arm of her they Madonna-faced mother, on a bench in Our Plaza and the
mother (who could not wait for the promised return--she has lain in
The acrid one of God these three years) sing-songing to her an unforgettable song,
mournfully prophetic:
"Because I brought thee, Sweet
In a world of sin?--
In a world of wonders and you doubt
With the pains and traps for the small white feet--
In a world from where the going out
Be dark as the arrival in!"
The old lips are quickly lent to memory; I suppose that I have to have
repeated to tall voice the final lines, for the man says pink color, tiredly
but kindly:
"Very beautiful. Anything more in the local line?"
"Hardly." Me smiled. Among Bartholomew the elegies of Storr and William
Young people "Desire-creative' City" it stretches an endless abyss.
"What is this--now--the acrid one of God of whom his/her child was speaking?" it was his/her following
question.
"An old local cemetery."
"Interesting anything?" he gaily asked.