The business of
serving gave Gerald a few moment’s grace, for he was dubious about the effect
on an elderly female, not in the best of health, of raking up old memories. October
arrived; and in another week the court would be sitting at the Old Bailey. Well one night, some
of us saw him, or thought we saw him, at a café dining with ‘Alcide,’—as a
matter of fact, it seems that it was her sister. She could not be more than twenty; and though want and other
suffering had done the work of time, had wasted her frame, and robbed her
cheek of its bloom and roundness, they had not extinguished the lustre of her
eyes, nor thinned her raven hair. Sebastian knew a dozen languages and could speak them
fluently, plus he had an aptitude for numbers that
Gianfrancesco did not. ’ She smiled on the last words, adding, ‘Oh, I don’t blame you for trying. “I have learned that. Then Capes’ footsteps approached. You know—I wish I could roll my little body up small and squeeze it into your
hand and grip your fingers upon it. I don’t want to Bowdlerize
Shakespeare. ’ She
shuddered, throwing her hands over her face. I never intended it
to be anything but a short story, for I had never
completed even the shortest of stories unless forced
to in grammar school.
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