Capitolo 17
her the remarked dryly, with a wink to any particularly. "And, till now as
I know", she proceeded with sarcasm in increase, "the man that inhaled mine
noble life was not in some way--particularly addicted to the use of
alcoholic drinks!" As if its collar too tightly were suddenly her
beaten down his/her finger among his/her neck-ribbon white and rigid and her soft
white throat. "He was a--doctor in New York!" she hastened rather airily
to explain. "Gee! But he was a long sea! And he was spending his/her summer
you vacation above in the same city of Maine where I was taking he/she takes care of me of fountain of firm carbonate.
And he allowed to fall in I medicine-negotiate her/it, nights, after cigars and
things. And he told me histories on the medicines and things,
sitting up there on the rocking I cross his/her legs and pointing out this
and that,--quinine, ipecac, opium, hasheesh,--all the foolish brevet
medicines, every soothing and untidy syrup! Lordy! He knew 'the em as if
they was people! From where they comes! Where they is going! Threads
on the tropics that would knot the hair along the nape of Your neck!
You joke on the pharmacology of soup-boiler of Your own city that would do her
cries for the joy! Gee! But the things that men had seen and had known! Gee! But
the things that men could do see her/it and know! And he had a
automobile", she proudly confided. "It was one of those dollar of the million
French cars. And I have lived as soon as round the angle from I medicine-negotiate her/it. But
we went by bicycle house from way of--Hampshire Nuovo!"
Almost imperceptibly its breath started to hasten. "Gee! Those nights!"
she murmured. "Rain or it shines, moon or thunder,--rash down those
country follows the trace than to forty miles for now, while singing, hollering, whispering!
It was him that it taught me to make my hair as this--instead of all the
convenient rapes and pompadours every other child in the city was bringing", her
affirmed, rather irrelevantly; then it stopped with a rapid look, furtive