Capitolo 46
industry of silk of China--if you cannot take any of the house of silk?
What is the use, the Mr. Barton, of rolling on Your sleeves and to work six
months in a factory of porcelain of pagan--only to study furnishes of glasses--if You
doesn't possess a china-closet in some urban on the face of the earth?
Because--sometimes, the Mr. Barton", she confided, "it seems as if I died a
horrible death if I could not buy the way things the other people they do--and
send them in some place--even if was not 'the house!' The world is so full of
beautiful things", her the mused. "White bath-tubs of enamel--and Persian
carpets--and the small more clever egg-beaters--and--"
"Eh?" Stammered Barton. Rather desperately he searched his/her brain for
some that healthy-sound expression to understand and understanding.
"You were able, I suppose", he risked him, not too intelligently, "you buy the
things and it gives them to the other people."
"Oh, yes, clearly", small granted Eve Edgarton without
enthusiasm. "Oh, yes, you can clearly buy always, the things people
they wants. But it understands", she said, there is very small
the satisfaction in to buy her the things wants to give to people that don't do
them wants. I tried once it", she confided, "and it didn't work.
"The winter that we was in Paraguay", she followed, "in of the old old man
Newspaper English I saw an advertising announcement of a white set of bedroom. There
it was eleven pieces, and it was adorable, and it cost eighty-two
pounds--and I thought after I had had the fun to unwrap him/it, I was able
give him/it to a woman that I have known who had a plantation of tea. But the instant
she found him/it--she painted him/it--green! Now when you send to England for
eleven furniture because they is white", the sighed the small Eve
Edgarton, "and you/he/she has packed them--because they is white--and it sent to
sea because they is white--and then it brought because of earth--miles and miles
and miles--on the heads of Indians--because they is white, you order of lack
'em to be white. Oh, it is entirely clearly correct", she admitted