Capitolo 74
"If you are interested in that kind of thing. Is it an antiquary?"
"Sure!" he responded with so uninhibited promptitude that I was sure the
answer would have been the same they made to ask me to him if him pits a dromedary.
"Comes long, then. I will pick there her up."
To arrive that the small green space of the peace among our tumult of the
crowded, misusing of slums, we have to pass the house of the Girl of Bonnie,
where his/her small figurines, touches with the fire of his/her love and her
genius that is perhaps one and the same is ever standing on watch, while looking
out on Our Plaza from his/her windows. Judging from his/her aspect and
conversation, I would have had to imagine my companion to be as little
him worried about art as with, I/you/he/she allow us to say, poetry or the local antiquities. But
he stopped dead in his/her footsteps, in front of the first window. Fingers that
it was as steel claws him buried in my arm. The other
hand sharpened.
"What that is it?" he fiercely murmured.
"What" to that he was sharpening, it was an illustrated bronze, the figure of
a girl, right in a boat of cockleshell, made of a pink-petal its arm,
outspread to the breeze that was bearing out her through ripples illuminated by the sun.
Under of it was the legend: "Far the Harbors." Does her, anxious that laughs,
impassioned, adventurous, it was the face of Minnie Munn. Therein the Bonnie
Girl had been prophetess as poet and sculptress, for her you/he/she had
it ended the bronze before Minnie left us.
"What", I responded the strong one, man pink color, trying to shake loosened his/her taking,
"it is a sculpture from Cecily Willard, otherwise her Mrs. Cyrus Staten."
"What will he/she take for him?"
"You/he/she cannot be bought." I talked to authority, for the figurines that the
Girl of Bonnie rises up his/her window you/he/she is not for sale, but for us of Ours
It places that loves them.
"Anything can be bought", him ritorgè, with its quiet, hoarse
persuasiveness, "to a price. I have the price, any matter what is."
Suddenly I understood my knowledge color pink and hard. I understood that