Capitolo 65
lights. Over this pergola a corridor opened out--denser, more
sweet, more sparkling. And through this corridor the echo of the invisible one
ball came spreading through the palms--the to whine complaining of a violin,
the laughter that ripples of a piano, the muttering of swarming of human bawls the
to the fashion of skirts, the thud-thud-thud of agitant to dance feet the,
beats, almost, of young hearts--thousand common place, every-day
sounds united here and now in a magic harmony that has thrilled little
Eve Edgarton as nothing on the great earth of God had ever thrilled her
before.
Hurriedly she cast down the last flight of footsteps and sped through the
bright office in the dark porch, consumed within one smoking, impassioned,
suddenly the uncontrollable curiosity to see with his/her his/her own eyes that that
everybody that play marvelous is seemed!
Once out in the obscurity its confusion clarified a small. It was
late, she reasoned--very, very late, long after midnight probably; for
of all the shady, line trembling of smokers in the evening that usually
him crowded that particular stretching of porch only an only distant shine
or two remained. Still even now in her almost complete isolation
outskirtses old inherent timidity swept her/it on new and
chaotically waged war with his/her insistent purpose. As covertly as
possible she walked to on all four along the dark wall to the bright one of the one stain that
burnt before as a lens of lantern from the cheerful ballroom--it walked to on all four
long--it walked to on all four long--a simple small girl in a simple small suit,
craving as the whole other plan the small girls of the world, in everybody
the other plan that little dress of the world, to press her/it anxious
small alone nose once against the window of dazzling toy-shop.
With his/her fingers that they finally grope in the actual taxes of that
window of desired ballroom, her the scrunched his/her eyes on perfectly narrow for
an instant and then opened them, while fixing wide the entrancing scene