Capitolo 38
death--of sight all the things that I have seen. I am ill to death of--doing
all the things that I have done." With the small metallic cuts of sound her
suddenly assembled his/her scissors and she on the
mahogany-colored portrait of a pianola.
"What does he/she love?" Barton set questions to.
In a surly kind, turgid of challenge the girl lifted his/her dark eyes
to his. "I want to be house--likes the other people--and it has a house,"
she groaned. "I want a house--and--the things that go with a house: a
cat and the things that go with a cat; ago the kitten and the things that
goes with ago the kitten; saucers of cream and the things that go with saucers
of cream; ice-chest, and--and--" Surprisingly in her languid,
you sing-song tone it broke a sudden note of passion. "Bah!" she.
"You think only from the principle at the end to going to India to dip Your arm in the
Ganges I damage, foamy and 'makes a wish!' 'What does it wish?' he/she asks
Son-in-laws, pleased-as a Chessy-cat. Humph! I desire that it was the soap-lather
in my his/her own wash-tub!--Or dawdling down only to British Guyana to
smell the great water-lilies of blowsy in the channels! I would smell rather
burnt crackers in mine really cook stews!"
"But you will certainly have a house--of the duration", Barton disputed with indeed
understanding. Entirely against every intention the unexpected emotion of the girl
disturbs him/it a small. "Every girl finds a house--of the duration!" him
resolvedly insisted.
"N--or, I don't do--you think of yes, mused Eve Edgarton judicially. "You see,"
she explained with soft deliberation, slow, "you see, the Mr. Barton, only
people that live in the houses know people that live in the houses! If you are a
nomadic you meet--only nomads! Campers naturally join only with campers,
and ocean-travellers with ocean-travellers--and red-velvet
hotel-inhabitants with hotel-inhabitants of red-velvet. Oh, clearly, if
Mother had lived you/he/she is probable that you/he/she would have been different", she added a trifle
more happily. "For, clearly, if Mother had lived me I should have