Capitolo 43
and moons and stars that you will have to hold rubbed and bright! But
with the green and whole earth for Your carpet and the bright sky for
Your roof-tree and God Stesso for Your landlord, are not now her
a fool, if you were satisfied completely?'"
"'If--You--it was not--rather satisfied, " Barton ended mumblingly.
Small Eve Edgarton lifted his/her great eyes, soft with pain, acute
with torn wounds, almost provocatively to Barton.
"That is--that that--it said" Mother, her the faltered. "But all the same--me
RATHER HAS A HOUSE!"
"Because, You poor child!" Said Barton. "You should have a house! It is a
shame! Be a bestial shame! It is a--"
Very slightly in the obscurity its hand scratched his.
"Did it touch my hand on purpose, or only accidentally?" Asked Eve
Edgarton, without a scintillation of expression on her I turn in on,
does gold-colored.
"Because, I am sure I don't know", laughed Barton. "Perhaps--perhaps it was a
few of each."
With absolute gravity the small Eve that Edgarton has kept right on fixing to
him. "I don't know if me you should ever like especially--or not,
The Mr. Barton", she spoke to goslow mode. "But you are certainly very beautiful!"
"Oh, I say me!" Barton unfortunately cried. With a really desperate effort
he almost fought to his/her feet, he/she staggered for an instant and then,
come lowering down again himself/herself/itself to the soft earth--a great, sitting in decomposed way,
tired heap, to the small Eve the feet of Edgarton.
Inflexibly, as if its wrists were built of steel threads the girl,
jumped on and it threw and it dragged and it almost gave one sharp tug of his dead weight in
a laying of session again.
"My! But you are chock-full of lightning!" she commiserated with him.
Out of the absolute anger and mortification of his/her helplessness Barton
you/he/she would have been able to almost curse her for his/her understanding. Then suddenly, without
warning, a pure and simple small gasp of tenderness escaped him/it.
"Eve Edgarton", he stammered, "you are--a--the brick! You--you have to have