Capitolo 4
look because he succeeded so well in to thrill women; he had the
you look at a poet, a singer, a prophet.
"I have come to round", I said me, to ask if you will consent
immediately gives a reunion in the rooms of a friend; and my principal wishes
me to add that he is prepared to pay five pounds as the price of the
fun."
Senor Anthony Herrera--that was what he called--it arched to
me with Spanish and impressive gentleness. Its olive and dark cheeks were
it wrinkled with a smile of kind contempt as him he/she answered seriously--
"I don't sell my gifts; I freely give them. If Your friend--Your
anonymous friend--it desires to see the cosmic one he/she wonders that it is
beaten through my hands, I am happy to show them to him.
Fortunately, as it often happens when it is necessary to convince
and it confuses a sceptic (for that Your friend is a sceptic I feel
instinctively), I happen not to have appointments to all this
evening." Him raced his/her hand through his/her fine, long hair reflexively.
"Yes, I go", he continued, as if addressing some unknown presence
that hovered him on the ceiling; "I go; come with me!" Then him I handed
his/her wide sombrero, with his/her ribbon of crimson it wound a circle of mantle
its shoulders, illuminated ahead a cigarette and strode by my side
toward the des of Hotel Anglais.
He spoke a little by the way, and that small in dry sentences. Him
seemed buried in deep thought; indeed, when we reached the door and
I turned in, he walked more distant a footstep or two on, as if not noticing
to that place I had brought him. Then he stretched him short, and
looked fixed around him for a moment. "It has, the Anglais" he said--and I am able
you mention in to pass that his/her English, despite a disdains southern
you accent, it was idiomatic and excellent. "It is here, then; be here!"
Him once more you/he/she was addressing the presence not seen.
Me smiled to think that these childish equipments were understood
you deceive Mr. Charles Vandrift. Not completely man's kind (as the City
about London knows) to be taken in from predicament. And all this, I saw,