Little Eve Edgarton

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Capitolo 33

silver cup wisecrack that he has swallowed down the hot vodka. Hungrily him
attached the salty meat, the dessert, satiating dates.

Looking at him/it solemn-dagli eyes above of her his/her own small intermittent bites, the girl
spoken clear rather simply the thought that was taller in his/her mind.
"This supper will enter mighty skilled, he/she doesn't want him/it, if we have to be out
here every night, the Mr. Barton?"

"If we have to be here out--every night?" faltered Barton.

Oh, ye of the! If only their ride in the afternoon had been together hotel
you speak--as clearly him it was later in five minutes them
departure--what would be their return midnight? Or rather them
not-return? Already through his/her spoiled brain he felt the monotonous one
squeak-creaking of gossip of rocker, the astute joke of the smoke-room,
the excitement whispered of the kitchen--the whole sophisticated old man
worldlings that indifferently hopes in the best, all the not sophisticated
old prudes that ecstatically desire the worse one!

"If we have to be here out every night?" he repeated wildly. "Oh,
thing--oh, what will say Your father Miss Edgarton?"

"What will you/they Produce says?" small Eve spoken to goslow mode Edgarton. Thuddingly her
puts down the empty steer-vase. "Oh, it will say Father:  What is in creation
Eve out trying to save to-night? A dog? A cat? A buck three-that it has legs?"

"What is it waited well, to save?" Barton set questions to some sourly.

"Only--You", small admitted Eve Edgarton without enthusiasm. "And
it is not it amusing", she quietly confided, "that I have not succeeded never yet
in to save nothing that I could take house with me--and holds! That is
the trouble with both to pension!"

In a vague scintillation, gold-colored of appeal she lifted does burnt out
again in the obscurity of Barton. Also fugitive to have called a smile a,
tremor of the reminiscence went scudding through its first mouth the
thoughtful shade of its old hat of loafer out again its characteristics.

"In India once", the small dark voice persisted, "in India once,
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