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"Eustace Reyna" <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:34:30 +0300
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I canexplain anything to anybody; and I love doing it. Still, Im not a man to treat a woman as a merenecessity. If Id thoughtyou were religious Id have given you a wide berth, I tell you. It must have been dear Florence Dorchester. Why have you passed yourself offon this lady as a native servant? A lost dog feels fit: thats what makeshim stray; but hes the unhappiest thing alive. A beaver has a jollytime because it has to build its dam and bring up its family. If youregoodnatured, you just get put upon. Well, theres no road in a wilderness: you have to make one. Im no countess; and Im fed up withpretending to be one. Many soldiers do: to them a woman is no more than a jarof marmalade, to be consumed and put away. If you have no conscienceabout what you preach, your proper job is at the bar. I must ask you to beparticularly careful with this man Meek. Dont you think we two could amuse ourselves a bitif we were friends? But he starts by calling the place the wilderness of thisworld. And I cant quite fancy the colonel: hes too old, and too much thegentleman. ThePilgrims Progress from this world to that which is to come. Didyou understand what that girl said to me? Many soldiers do: to them a woman is no more than a jarof marmalade, to be consumed and put away. No: maroons arefireworks: things that go off with a bang. They have such niceones at that confectioners near the Place Vendôme. Lifes thrown away on them: they get nothing out of it. He stands politelyaside to let the patient pass him, and remains there. Lets go andhave a bit of real life somewhere. Look atpoor Harry Smiler that murdered the cop in Croydon! Lifes thrown away on them: they get nothing out of it. No doubt they put everything on the poor fellow becausehe is not quite all there. I thought youd left allthat flapdoodle behind you when you came away with us. That is what makes Sweetie almost superhuman. Orrather, to be strictly accurate, that is what my wife is out for. And the oftener the faces change the more the tips cometo, eh? Any girlcan be a countess nowadays if shes goodlooking enough to pick up acount. She has a conscience as achambermaid and none as a woman. But it gives you an idea, doesnt it, of what Imean? But then he beat her on their wedding day;and he beat her just as hard every day afterwards. The Countess peers round the corner of the pavilion to see whethershe may safely return. It was the duty of the intelligence orderly, sir. If youdont withdraw and apologize, it will be the worse for you. I inspected the stores this morning; andthe maroons are missing. Since the war the lower centres have becomevocal. _______________________________________________ Adeos-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/adeos-main
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