Capitolo 69
still--in the far-by places of the earth.
To any other in that society it probably made an only word you penetrate.
Only stricken mute from the vibrating power of the voice, vaguely
uncomfortable, vaguely he/she saddened, you gather after group of lads of hoydenish
crowded in charm been struck dumb around the dark edges of the room.
But to the small Eve the cosmopolitan ears of Edgarton every family gipsyish
puts in words so oddly transplanted in that alien room it was as a call
to the wild one--from the wild one.
Then--as to all the repressed natures the moment of the full self-expression
it comes once, without notice, unprepared, without also
aware acquiescence sometimes--the moment came to the small Eve
Edgarton. Mischievously before, more as a challenge to her that as anything
other, she started to hum the melody and to slightly ripple before and back his/her body
to the rhythm.
Then its breath suddenly started to hasten, and as it hypnotized a half
she went climbing himself/herself/itself through the window in the ballroom, it was standing for a
instant like a grey-white ghost in the external shades, then with a
gives back as foreigner to his/her his/her own ears as to another, it grabbed on a great,
silver scarf squared, bright that has sparkled through an abandoned chair,
stretches him/it extended by his/her angles through his/her hair and eyes, and with a
you spoil the small one to whine--half challenge, mean appeal--a rapid dart, a long,
undulating slips--it united him in the dagger-blade, the
nightingale, the fortitude of surly mountain, the mocking and cheerful brook, everybody
the love, the whole ecstasy, the whole horrible fatalism of that
painful song.
Now bent as an arc his/her flexible figure it bent right, now the left to the
it that melodiously sings. Makes as a silky pipe to which its slender body is seemed flexible
drinks on the fluid sound. Nobody would have been able to swear in that vague light
what his/her feet even so a lot as touched the earth. You were a wraith! A
phantasy! A miracle of fluctuant of sound and sense!