Capitolo 36
obstacles in front of her and it gave him/it for him. "And it--greatly
you facilitate the matters, the Mr. Barton" that she has confided, "if you are kindly able
you start to dry out some papers against Your side of the lantern."
"Thing?" Gasped Barton.
Very cautiously him taken the pulpy sheet among his/her thumb and
index. It was out a portrait text of a great gasoline-series, and slowly,
as he analyzed him for of the unknown charm or currency, uniforms in two and
you fall back wetly to his/her consorts. Once more for the nervous and pure and simple relief him
you burst out laughing.
Out of his/her diminutiveness, out of his/her skinniness, out of her
extraordinary litheness, the small Eve on which Edgarton has fixed speculatively
to the great awkward helplessness of Barton. Its hat seemed humorous. His/her
hair seemed humorous. Its shirt of torn flannel was separately
humorous. But there was no anything humorous on his/her small fixed mouth.
"If You--the laughter", she threatened, "I will furnish back her of point on face
again--and--stampings on You."
"I believe that you are able!" Barton said with a sudden sobriety more packaged
with joy that some laughter that him you/he/she had ever laughed.
"Well, I don't take care of", it timidly granted some the girl. "Each
laughters to my book of carpet-doll! Son-in-laws! Each ago! When I am
rearranging theirs old harvests of mummy--and putting in catalog their old man
American and southern birds--or polishing on their geologic old man
champions--theirs think that I am marvelous. But when I try to do the
more child--the smallest thing that happens to interest me--they call me to them
'crazy!' Then it is because I come 'gone out here to this cavern--to play,"
she whispered with a scintillation of the true shadiness. "All over the world", her
confided, "this cavern is the only place that me I have ever found where there
it was not someone to laugh to me."
Among his/her placid eyebrows a small vengeful frown suddenly blackened.
"That's why it especially was not convenient, the Mr. Barton--to have her/it