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The time for being jealous

  Susy had let her lace cloak slide to her feet, and stood beforehim in the faintly-lit room, slim and shimmering-white throughblack transparencies.   She raised her eyebrows carelessly. "I told you long ago he’dasked us there for August.""You didn’t tell me you’d accepted."She smiled as if he had said something as simple as Fred. "Iaccepted everything–from […]

either the usual tribal welcome

  Now he perceived that he knew nothing at all, and that the"Hullo, old Fred!" with which Susy hailed Gillow’s arrival mightbe either the usual tribal welcome–since they were all "old,"and all nicknamed, in their private jargon–or a greeting thatconcealed inscrutable depths of complicity.   Susy was visibly glad to see Gillow; but she was glad ofeverything […]

he said to himself one evening

  "After all," he said to himself one evening, as his eyeswandered, with somewhat of a convalescent’s simple joy, from oneto another of their large confiding faces, "after all, they’vegot a religion …." The phrase struck him, in the moment ofusing it, as indicating a new element in his own state of mind,and as being, in […]

had been based not a trace remained in

  Susy’s independence and self-sufficiency had been among herchief attractions; if she were to turn into an echo theirdelicious duet ran the risk of becoming the dullest ofmonologues. He forgot that five minutes earlier he had resentedher being glad to see their friends, and for a moment he foundhimself leaning dizzily over that insoluble riddle of […]

and had often ministered to its qualms in others

chanel ceramic watches chanel j12   All these pre-natal experiences now seemed utterly inapplicableto the new man he had become. He could not imagine being boredby Susy–or trying to escape from her if he were. He could notthink of her as an enemy, or even as an accomplice, sinceaccomplices are potential enemies: she was some one […]