Capitolo 76
them while I am lying here."
Obediently from the top put in disorder of the trunk of steamboat his/her father
returned with the great lottery of raw manuscript. "And my pencil,
please", small persisted Eve Edgarton. "And my rubber to be cancelled. And mine
write-axle. And my rule. And mine--"
Distractedly, one to the time, Edgarton gave her the articles, and
it sank down then on the foot of his/her bed with his/her thin-labiate mouth
twisted in a rather melancholy sneer. "Doesn't appreciate very Your old man
son-in-laws, ago?" he sharply asked.
Seriously for a moment the girl sat, while to study his/her father is marked by the sun
characteristics, the thin hair, the pale realized eyes, the lean cheeks the
old-young untamable mouth. Then smile a few timid sparkled through
his/her face and you/he/she had gone again.
"As a parent, dear", she spoke to goslow mode, "me The hook to distraction! But as a
daily companion?" Vaguely its eyebrows lifted. "How a true companion of game?"
Against the starch-white of his/her pillows her sudden pulsation
the small brown throat almost showed with the amazing separate being. "But as
a true companion of game", she uniformly persisted, "you are so--intelligent--and
You travel so fast--me tired."
"Does it like who?" brusquely asked to his/her father.
The eyes of the girl were again suddenly surly--it annoyed, distrait,
inestimably dark. "That is the whole trouble", she said. "You have
I never date me time--not to like anybody."
"Oh, but--Eve", pleaded his/her father. Awkward as some pupil, he sat,
there, smoking and twisting in front of this small absurd group of nerve
and nerves that him he had produced. "Oh, but Eve", he disapproved
defenselessly, "it is the deuce of a job for a--for a man to be left everybody
alone in the world with a--with a daughter! Really is!"
The sweat had already started on its forehead, and through a cheek
the old grey Greek fret of wrinkles started to suddenly shade. "I have
my fact better!" him the pleaded. "I swear me I have! Only I have not known never as!