A Village Ophelia and Other Stories

Anne Reeve Aldrich

Capitolo 26

womb.

A dark throw of water passed on the face of that young lady, and anything shone
in the blue and hard eyes. You drew Druse tightened against his/her heart, as if
she would not allow her of never to go, and then her nervously laughed, while trying to
the calm ones. "There, there, it the ai not anything. They is all the beasts but me
me it was ugly last night, 'n' it did him/it angry. Tell me anything around
the country, Druse as You made the other day--anything. I don't take care of."

"Does it desire that you returned there, also?" Nostalgic Druse and asked, anxiously.
Druse was able any more takes root in the city that was able a partridge-berry
weepings, the earth of flint rises up of I back-fence him/it.

"Desires I returned? Yes, if I could return where I lived", says
The Miss De Courcy with her small hoarse laughter, sudden. "No, I don't do
or. People are enough many all the devils, city or country."

Druse shivered a little. You looked above with begging mute in the
unwise face, beautiful that she had learned to love so well from her humble
tendings and ministerings. You had the nature to love where she served.
You didn't have any words to say, but the Miss De Courcy turned away from the
sorry eyes, confused of forget-I-not blue, the soles the beauty of the
simple, irregular small face.

"I was only a-joking, Druse", she added, while smiling. "Comes, we do some
lemonade."

But Druse didn't forget these and the other words. You pondered them on
as she placed in her suffocating at night the small bedroom of dark, or it frequented to
his/her day job and her undertaken a lot of an imaginary battle for the
beautiful, inactive woman that represented the grace of the life to her.

The fat school janitress stopped to sometimes make some slander a moment with Druse.

"Never Courcy seen the Miss De on Your floor?" she asked, one day, curiously.

"Yes, ma'am, me--I have seen her", answered Druse, really the color
rising to his/her pale cheeks.

"God of Or!" exclaimed the school janitress, lifting a deadly sigh from the
depth of her calico-covered breast and able, brown, "if I were the owner
Prev   Il contenuto del libro   Next

Forum wielotematyczne koparki gÄ…sienicowe Serwery dedykowane prace magisterskie konto kredyt