Capitolo 22
he/she asks that revealed the secret desire of a life: You know how
do boys get in the school of authoritative choir?" Then the withering of
disappointment when doesn't was not answer there.
The men walked thoughtfully on, apparently as one on that you/he/she was turning
and above in his/her mind of the difficult matter, delicate, looking at him on
all side and in every light, as he has to do.
He finally accelerated his/her rhythm as if having decided what should be
fact. He looked for the happiest his/her decision.
III
That night in an attic-as room of an old building opposed Morningside
You park a small supper-table for two been standing ready in the middle one of the floor;
the same supper, the whole meal was shed. There is a victory that
human nature in thousand of the lives daily victories on the lack that although it
you/he/she cannot drive poverty from the scene, you/he/she can hide his/her devastation from the
genius of choice and touch. A battle of that brave and desperate kind
you/he/she had been defeated in this skylight. Every luxury missing, it had the charm of
the refined nudity, of delicious shortage. The supper-table of convenient wood
roughly carpentered was hidden a piece of fine long-used under
table-flax; in the damask that sparkles beaten clusters they were of
snow's balls. Flash him/it of a simple lamp of glass you/he/she had softened from a too much expensive
shade of silk. On the edge of a common vase some trombones, hung also
expensive trombones. The supper, frugal to a bargain, it tried the eye and
the appetite from the good sense with which you/he/she had been select and
prepared. This way the whole scene made to presage human nature to bay but
victorious in the presence of that wolf which frightens the near-from howl
poor out of their sleep.
In these empty sounds of room penetrated through a door. They proceeded
from piano-keys evidently so old that one has wondered if possibly them
you/he/she had not started to be played on days of Beethoven, if theirs
it was not as it was new on the clavichord of Bach. The fingers that