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Damp also . 646.2858223162075
He looked around the room and then called out Come here , quick ? 510.5248866090805
What is it ? 91.70897088172657
Barbara asked , standing in the doorway . 160.74376848076864
I 've solved the mystery of the little bag . 338.47879586248774
There it is h and there is what was in it . 122.46920817852249
But where do people go swimming in Paris ? 1130.4626311876204
That boat in the river , maybe . 273.67587524067636
What boat ? 1194.523169303938
There 's a big boat anchored near the Place de la Concorde , with a swimming pool in it- did n't you notice it ? 870.7030675689388
But if he has time to go swimming , he had time to be with us . 151.43397141204474
She looked at him in surprise . 210.17735269936495
I know , he said , reading her mind . 162.5124270296737
I do n't know what I 'm going to do with you . 289.6453286114923
It 's because we are in France , he said , and know so few people . 206.843412540901
So something like this matters more than it would at home . 437.029499104188
Also , he was so nice when he was nice . 247.46675382209145
All because I did n't feel like dancing . 547.6999102831994
I do n't think it was that , really . 199.28185060219485
Then what was it ? 135.51200906404418
I do n't know . 151.72530295778043
I wish I did . 358.5370841986145
The tweed coat , maybe . 151.1911662040505
The thing about Eugene is that he 's very proud . 320.07100381337926
And the thing about hurt feelings , the wet bathing suit pointed out , is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be . 490.45388160395214
For instance- what about all those people Harold Rhodes went toward unhesitatingly , as if this were the one moment they would ever have together , their one chance of knowing each other ? 584.4302643022539
Fortunately , the embarrassing questions raised by objects do not need to be answered , or we would all have to go sleep in the open fields . 417.81821467394184
And in any case , answers may clarify but they do not change anything . 498.65103732953
h he brought with him a mixture of myrrh and aloes , of about a hundred pounds ' weight . 243.01451618893876
They took Jesus 's body , then , and wrapped it in winding-clothes with the spices ; that is how the Jews prepare a body for burial . 320.58899320907364
Listed as present at the Descent were Mary , Mary 's sister , Mary Magdalene , John , Joseph of Arimathea , Nicodemus . 144.7051428505396
Search as he might , he could find no place where the Bible spoke of a moment when Mary could have been alone with Jesus . 322.53288251334226
Mostly the scene was crowded with mourners , such as the dramatic Dell'Arca Lamentation in Bologna , where the grief-stricken spectators had usurped Mary 's last poignant moment . 122.99535220890013
In his concept there could be no one else present . 369.32674692136413
His first desire was to create a mother and son alone in the universe . 291.1479081681323
When might Mary have had that moment to hold her child on her lap ? 789.8212439306526
Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground , while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate 's asking for Christ 's body , Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes , and the others had gone home to mourn . 173.75229607971082
Those who saw his finished Pieta would take the place of the biblical witnesses . 162.99436261836553
They would feel what Mary was undergoing . 607.4669659740617
There would be no halos , no angels . 99.14806471746894
These would be two human beings , whom God had chosen . 508.3164827511905
He felt close to Mary , having spent so long concentrating on the beginning of her journey . 428.67035360771246
Now she was intensely alive , anguished ; her son was dead . 446.25330611037833
Even though he would later be resurrected , he was at this moment dead indeed , the expression on his face reflecting what he had gone through on the cross . 312.59247379903536
In his sculpture therefore it would not be possible for him to project anything of what Jesus felt for his mother ; only what Mary felt for her son . 503.1273623285638
Jesus ' inert body would be passive , his eyes closed . 469.81788484747824
Mary would have to carry the human communication . 521.2110242582158
This seemed right to him . 165.09077862862208
It was a relief to shift in his mind to technical problems . 207.49836445108375
Since his Christ was to be life size , how was Mary to hold him on her lap without the relationship seeming ungainly ? 512.7137248550383
His Mary would be slender of limb and delicate of proportion , yet she must hold this full-grown man as securely and convincingly as she would a child . 239.86331008565003
There was only one way to accomplish this by design , by drawing diagrams and sketches in which he probed the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept . 345.4812566633688
He started by making free sketches to loosen up his thinking so that images would appear on paper . 527.9365692831002
Visually , these approximated what he was feeling within himself . 131.76322948411988
At the same time he started walking the streets , peering at the people passing or shopping at the stalls , storing up fresh impressions of what they looked like , how they moved . 257.3382264161965
In particular he sought the gentle , sweet-faced nuns , with head coverings and veils coming to the middle of their foreheads , remembering their expressions until he reached home and set them down on paper . 245.68993486302838
Discovering that draperies could be designed to serve structural purposes , he began a study of the anatomy of folds . 138.305344273469
He improvised as he went along , completing a life-size clay figure , then bought yards of an inexpensive material from a draper , wet the lightweight cloth in a basin and covered it over with clay that Argiento brought from the bank of the Tiber , to the consistency of thick mud . 233.72266812631415
No fold could be accidental , each turn of the drapery had to serve organically , to cover the Madonna 's slender legs and feet so that they would give substantive support to Christ 's body , to intensify her inner turmoil . 237.9467456028364
When the cloth dried and stiffened , he saw what adjustments had to be made . 169.70655295076446
So that 's sculpture , commented Argiento wryly , when he had sluiced down the floor for a week , making mud pies . 312.90886562831986
Michelangelo grinned . 275.5847567227674
See , Argiento , if you control the way these folds are bunched , like this , or made to flow , you can enrich the body attitudes . 245.2964640722952
They can have as much tactile appeal as flesh and bone . 468.956517766867
He went into the Jewish quarter , wanting to draw Hebraic faces so that he could reach a visual understanding of how Christ might have looked . 504.32130253521643
The Jewish section was in Trastevere , near the Tiber at the church of San Francesco a Ripa . 77.69138329528481
The colony had been small until the Spanish Inquisition of 1492 drove many Jews into Rome . 398.49176554516475
Here , for the most part , they were well treated , as a reminder of the Old Testament heritage of Christianity ; many of their gifted members were prominent in the Vatican as physicians , musicians , bankers . 406.76089129226364
The men did not object to his sketching them while they went about their work , but no one could be persuaded to come to his studio to pose . 254.23918459893892
He was told to ask for Rabbi Melzi at the synagogue on Saturday afternoon . 248.11105612853203
Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study , a gentle old man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes , robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head . 176.2071557519974
He was reading from the Talmud with a group of men from his congregation . 86.92060594024211
When Michelangelo explained why he had come , Rabbi Melzi replied gravely The Bible forbids us to bow down to or to make graven images . 590.8526390690762
That is why our creative people give their time to literature , not to painting or sculpture . 494.78948534934545
But , Rabbi Melzi , you do n't object to others creating works of art ? 612.9933930821703
Not at all . 161.52362863861472
Each religion has its own tenets . 191.79745359196755
I am carving a Pieta from white Carrara marble . 221.60771491914275
I wish to make Jesus an authentic Jew . 1150.8516976262165
I can not accomplish this if you will not help me . 377.9807258858466
The rabbi said thoughtfully , I would not want my people to get in trouble with the Church . 247.34602804836766
I am working for the Cardinal of San Dionigi . 248.17812156984212
I 'm sure he would approve . 512.5081830833889
What kind of models would you prefer ? 1155.0770171655618
Workmen . 22.89093458366746
In their mid-thirties . 33.176983864672366
Not bulky laborers , but sinewy men . 449.03377396468414
With intelligence . 332.18800675456674
And sensitivity . 220.29638546135996
Rabbi Melzi smiled at him with infinitely old but merry eyes . 785.1571180233408
Leave me your address . 306.1870496820266
I will send you the best the quarter has to offer . 542.0824744157144
Michelangelo hurried to Sangallo 's solitary bachelor room with his sketches , asked the architect to design a stand which would simulate the seated Madonna . 298.58051596318745
Sangallo studied the drawings and improvised a trestle couch . 189.9646941209244
Michelangelo bought some scrap lumber . 2225.2482755379683
Together he and Argiento built the stand , covering it with blankets . 387.5356168238798
His first model arrived at dusk . 244.62977352263712
He hesitated for a moment when Michelangelo asked him to disrobe , so Michelangelo gave him a piece of toweling to wrap around his loins , led him to the kitchen to take off his clothes . 136.96663636994228
He then draped him over the rough stand , explained that he was supposed to be recently dead , and was being held on his mother 's lap . 322.86527450952906
The model quite plainly thought Michelangelo crazy ; only the instructions from his rabbi kept him from bolting . 366.12231670221024
But at the end of the sitting , when Michelangelo showed him the quick , free drawings , with the mother roughed in , holding her son , the model grasped what Michelangelo was after , and promised to speak to his friends h. He worked for two hours a day with each model sent by the rabbi . 277.2659879318667
Mary presented quite a different problem . 734.0410787836656
Though this sculpture must take place thirty-three years after her moment of decision , he could not conceive of her as a woman in her mid-fifties , old , wrinkled , broken in body and face by labor or worry . 364.07414179896386
His image of the Virgin had always been that of a young woman , even as had his memory of his mother . 169.53366522861276
Jacopo Galli introduced him into several Roman homes . 332.21762956873334
Here he sketched , sitting in their flowing gowns of linen and silk , young girls not yet twenty , some about to be married , some married a year or two . 337.1378072560473
Since the Santo Spirito hospital had taken only men , he had had no experience in the study of female anatomy ; but he had sketched the women of Tuscany in their fields and homes . 149.18859399630244
He was able to discern the body lines of the Roman women under their robes . 120.87300087028427
He spent concentrated weeks putting his two figures together a Mary who would be young and sensitive , yet strong enough to hold her son on her lap ; and a Jesus who , though lean , was strong even in death h a look he remembered well from his experience in the dead room of Santo Spirito . 524.3985069140773
He drew toward the composite design from his meticulously accurate memory , without need to consult his sketches . 995.9772217442745
Soon he was ready to go into a three-dimensional figure in clay . 416.4968319522228
Here he would have free expression because the material could be moved to distort forms . 311.1499841105358
When he wanted to emphasize , or get greater intensity , he added or subtracted clay . 332.87241037345063
Next he turned to wax because there was a similarity of wax to marble in tactile quality and translucence . 401.1321340233479
He respected each of these approach techniques , and kept them in character his quill drawings had a scratchiness , suggesting skin texture ; the clay he used plastically to suggest soft moving flesh , as in an abdomen , in a reclining torso ; the wax he smoothed over to give the body surface an elastic pull . 574.7171774142878
Yet he never allowed these models to become fixed in his mind ; they remained rough starting points . 869.0222925029238
When carving he was charged with spontaneous energy ; too careful or detailed studies in clay and wax would have glued him down to a mere enlarging of his model . 482.5599908219877
The true surge had to be inside the marble itself . 493.811338432097
Drawing and models were his thinking . 216.08643110112823
Carving was action . 47.97320247200587
10 . 877.469878051973
The arrangement with Argiento was working well , except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice . 390.47197067560245
Argiento had been trained so rigorously by the Jesuits that Michelangelo was unable to change his habits up before dawn to scrub the floors , whether they were dirty or not ; water boiling on the fire for washing laundry every day , the pots scoured with river sand after each meal . 387.04747383313565
Argiento , this is senseless , he complained , not liking to work on the wet floors , particularly in cold weather . 229.9973551661132
You 're too clean . 983.9971637403352
Scrub the studio once a week . 297.5903699346803
That 's enough . 141.45067657336512
No , said Argiento stolidly . 65.3819295670788
Every day . 393.07657923162077
Before dawn . 1230.0255575126014
I was taught . 136.59515860282843
And God help anyone who tries to unteach you ! 813.1098377993807
grumbled Michelangelo ; yet he knew that he had nothing to grumble about , for Argiento made few demands on him . 236.67360228931142
The boy was becoming acquainted with the contadini families that brought produce into Rome . 442.29073757588947
On Sundays he would walk miles into the campagna to visit with them , and in particular to see their horses . 285.73724366672116
The one thing he missed from his farm in the Po Valley was the animals ; frequently he would take his leave of Michelangelo by announcing Today I go see the horses . 442.7570074374997
It took a piece of bad luck to show Michelangelo that the boy was devoted to him . 198.41754816849615
He was crouched over his anvil in the courtyard getting his chisels into trim , when a splinter of steel flew into his eye and imbedded itself in his pupil . 212.2958536159063
He stumbled into the house , eyes burning like fire . 457.8367440704147
Argiento made him lie down on the bed , brought a pan of hot water , dipped some clean white linen cloth and applied it to extract the splinter . 313.07260551882916
Though the pain was considerable Michelangelo was not too concerned . 211.10640909443808
He assumed he could blink the splinter out . 52.24035278741338
But it would not come . 84.64138023810006
Argiento never left his side , keeping the water boiled , applying hot compresses throughout the night . 439.70606711414945
By the second day Michelangelo began to worry ; and by the second night he was in a state of panic he could see nothing out of the afflicted eye . 266.730832290889
At dawn Argiento went to Jacopo Galli . 109.69492252548426
Galli arrived with his family surgeon , Maestro Lippi . 171.1456019980258
The surgeon carried a cage of live pigeons . 148.98917019297627
He told Argiento to take a bird out of the cage , cut a large vein under its wing , let the blood gush into Michelangelo 's injured eye . 292.4080316378916
The surgeon came back at dusk , cut the vein of a second pigeon , again washed out the eye . 118.61406321110437
Beth was very still and her breath came in small jerking gasps . 152.20165544440079
The thin legs twitched convulsively once , then Kate felt the little body stiffening in her arms and heard one strangled sound . 409.76200441787523
The scant flesh grew cool beneath her frantic hands . 1932.7879929772632
The child was gone . 119.02294993061946
When Juanita awoke , Kate was still rocking the dead child , still crooning in disbelief , No , no , oh , no ! 443.83474410850414
They put Kate to bed and wired Jonathan and sent for the young Presbyterian minister . 765.1685714485247
He sat beside Kate 's bed with the others throughout the morning , talking , talking of God 's will , while Kate lay staring angrily at him . 755.5499236524566
When he told her God had called the child to Him , she rejected his words rebelliously . 342.141571790395
Few of the neighbors came , but Mrs Tussle came , called by tragedy . 264.1093109153289
It always comes in threes , she sighed heavily . 357.94352249414356
Trouble never comes but in threes . 127.22424726936879
They held the funeral the next morning from the crossroads church and buried the little box in the quiet family plot . 574.9985642949168
Kate moved through all the preparations and services in a state of bewilderment . 288.5519804996514
She would not accept the death of such a little child . 182.8415112213504
God called her to Him , the minister had said . 424.1873066390495
God would not do that , Kate thought stubbornly . 396.74511494377595
Jonathan 's letter came , as she knew it would , and he had accepted their child 's death as another judgment from God against both Kate and himself . 423.26523676950495
In blind panic of grief she accepted Jonathan 's dictum , and believed in her desperation that she had been cursed by God . 401.7112864999318
She held Jonathan 's letter , his words burning like a brand , and knew suddenly that the bonds between them were severed . 271.217999704514
She had nothing left but her duty to his land and his son . 243.37227192436833
Joel came and sat mutely with her , sharing her pain and anguish , averting his eyes from the ice packs on her bosom . 285.40662539115374
Juanita and Mrs Tussle kept Kate in bed a week until her milk dried . 1062.192634642141
When she returned to life in the big house she felt shriveled of all emotion save dedication to duty . 629.718114205172
She disciplined herself daily to do what must be done . 688.48008671594
She had even steeled herself to keep Juanita upstairs in the nurse 's room off the empty nursery , although the girl tried to insist on moving back to the quarters to spare Kate remembrance of the baby 's death . 468.80070399509043
Juanita drooped about the place , wearing a haunted , brooding look , which Kate attributed to the baby 's death , until the day a letter came for her addressed to Miss Juanita Fitzroy , bearing a Grafton postmark . 232.56553573131637
Seeing the slanting hand , Kate knew uneasily that it was from the Yankee colonel . 344.32560099711515
The Federal forces had taken Parkersburg and Grafton from the Rebels and were moving to take all the mountains . 182.93718171546908
Kate tried to contain her curiosity and foreboding at what the letter portended , at what involvement existed for Juanita . 397.1829240902321
Uncle Randolph and Joel had replanted the bottom lands with difficulty , for more of the slaves , including Annie , had sneaked off when the soldiers broke camp . 194.20041133569185
Joel worked like a field hand in the afternoons after school . 294.5053982855535
He had been at lessons in the schoolhouse since they returned from Harpers Ferry . 241.7534491578918
Kate felt she had deserted the boy in her own loss . 506.0530994871029
She loved him and missed his company . 383.6619683275882
Uncle Randolph had been riding out every evening on some secret business of his own . 555.4610360497679
What it was Kate could not fathom . 197.3932085057803
He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies , but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs Lattimer 's funeral . 350.74398805638015
Joel knew what he was about , however . 111.40288766630026
You 're gon na get caught , she heard Joel say to Uncle Randolph by the pump one morning . 374.9245658826076
Not this old fox , chuckled Uncle Randolph . 445.55922514061166
Everybody knows I 'm just a harmless , deaf old man who takes to drink . 1040.6983872973794
I aim to keep a little whisky still back in the ridge for my pleasure . 322.1201644215594
Whisky still , my foot , said Joel . 125.21158597911084
You 're back there riding with the guerrillas , the Moccasin Rangers . 84.93969533266643
Hush , said Uncle Randolph , smiling , or I 'll give you another black eye . 454.6368142373285
He patted the eye Joel had had blackened in a fight over being Rebel at the crossroads some days back . 221.70221212230808
Kate had no idea what they were talking of , although she had seen the blue lights and strange fires burning and winking on the ridges at night , had heard horsemen on the River Road and hill trails through the nights till dawn . 676.7347686054013
Stranger , Uncle Randolph began riding home nights with a jug strapped to his saddle , drunkenly singing Old Dan Tucker at the top of his voice . 297.37620255385747
Hearing his voice ring raucously up from the road , Kate would await him anxiously and watch perplexed as he walked into the house , cold sober . 379.343570836801
What he was about became clear to her with the circulation of another broadside proclamation by General McClellan , threatening reprisals against Rebel guerrillas . 226.01115549379728
She was taken up in worry for the reckless old man . 395.18766585137683
Kate drew more and more on her affection for Joel through the hot days of summer work . 606.1629491223824
She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer , after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom . 232.8754190352145
Kate had walked past the school on her morning chores and had seen the whole incident , had seen Joel 's burning humiliation before Miss Snow 's cold , bespectacled wrath . 705.6368164639978
He had the hardest pains of growing before him now , as he approached twelve . 354.42799493409564
These would be his hardest years , she knew , and he missed his father desperately . 335.6702008707435
She tried to find some way to draw him out , to help him . 204.9253718208761
Whenever she found time , she went blackberry picking with him , and they would come home together , mouths purple , arms and faces scratched , tired enough to forget grief for another day . 547.5216446896984
He tended the new colts Beau had sired . 155.89659304542317
He helped Kate and Juanita enlarge the flower garden in the side yard , where they sometimes sat in the still evenings watching the last fat bees working against the summer 's purple dusk . 838.5646190453566
No one went much to the crossroads now except Uncle Randolph . 490.1287642171722
They stayed in their own world on the bluff , waiting for letters and the peddler , bringing the news . 228.1585321654516
Jonathan wrote grimly of the destruction of Harpers Ferry before they abandoned it ; of their first engagement at Falling Waters after Old Jack 's First Brigade had destroyed all the rolling stock of the BO Railroad . 632.0519846115612
The men were restive , he wrote , ready to take the battle to the enemy as Jackson wished . 191.46014406067212
The peddler came bawling his wares and told them of the convention in Wheeling , Which had formed a new state government by declaring the government at Richmond in the east illegal because they were traitors . 266.23057080999166
Dangling his gaudy trinkets before them , he told of the Rebel losses in the mountains , at Cheat and Rich mountains both , and the Federal march on Beverly . 126.78381859702087
Cleaned all them Rebs out'n the hills , they did ! 351.27514192313726
They wo n't never git over inter loyal western Virginia , them traitors ! 595.1650448613625
The Federals is making everybody take the oath of loyalty around these parts too , he crowed . 186.43846006449934
After he had gone , Kate asked Uncle Randolph proudly , Would you take their oath ? 894.6516988783526
And the old man had given a sly and wicked laugh and said , Hell , yes ! 224.7600176019487
I think I 've taken it about fifty times already ! 1182.9493105060078
winking at Joel 's look of shock . 122.29022468918988
Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate 's baby and at Jonathan 's decision to go with the South And , dear Kate , she wrote , poor Dr Breckenridge 's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South , to his good father 's sorrow . 875.1448172231295
Maj Anderson of Fort Sumter is home and recruiting volunteers for the US Army . 315.59816560475196
In spite of the fact that the state legislature voted us neutral , John Hunt Morgan is openly flying the Confederate flag over his woolen factory ! 812.4235100754053
Rumor of a big battle spread like a grassfire up the valley . 217.69595137460942
Accounts were garbled at the telegraph office when they sent old George down to Parkersburg for the news . 228.75921339034352
All dey know down dere is it were at Manassas Junction and it were a big fight , the old man told them . 147.6986649518809
In the next few days they had cause to rejoice . 146.8366755102263
It had been a big battle , and the Confederate forces had won . 230.9930661872093
Jonathan and Ben were not on the lists of the dead or on that of the missing . 160.0478448879486
Kate and Mrs Tussle waited for letters anxiously . 814.297476369869
Joel went to the crest of a hill behind the house and lit an enormous victory bonfire to celebrate . 227.49987825120286
When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out , she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful . 839.3935029174921
They all prayed now that the North would realize that peace must come , for Virginia had defended her land victoriously . 473.9088064230995
The week after Manassas the sound of horses in the yard brought Kate up in shock from an afternoon 's rest when she saw the Federal soldiers from her upstairs window . 673.0033219109263
They had already lost most of their corn , she thought . 365.515051304428
Were they to be insulted again because of the South 's great victory ? 176.23653873612182
She remembered McClellan 's last proclamation as she hurried fearfully down the stairs . 615.5387180064845
At the landing she saw Juanita , her face flushed pink with excitement , run down the hall from the kitchen to the front door . 373.4441006400545
Juanita stopped just inside the open door , her hand to her mouth . 379.18531671962285
As Kate came swiftly down the stairs to the hall she saw Colonel Marsh framed in the doorway , his face set in the same vulnerable look Juanita wore . 558.3715641239489
Kate greeted him gravely , uneasy with misgivings at his visit . 883.0681923824422
What brings you here again , Colonel Marsh ? 515.9660520108602
she asked , taking him and Juanita into the parlor where the shutters were closed against the afternoon sun . 406.01674679567566
I stopped to say goodbye , Mrs Lattimer , and to tell you how sorry I was to hear about your baby . 305.70685280179043
I wish our doctor could have saved her . 1044.39526277015
It was a terrible loss to me , said Kate quietly , feeling the pain twist again at the mention , knowing now that Juanita must have written to him at Grafton . 365.0207356061296
Where will you go now that you 're leaving Parkersburg ? 593.8054008206709
she asked him , seeing Juanita 's eyes grow bleak . 1079.293595887269
As you know , General McClellan has been occupying Beverly . 1600.8389432093506
He has notified me that he has orders to go to Washington to take over the Army of the Potomac . 113.26127808151837
I am to go to Washington to serve with him . 172.91258151644018
When are you to leave ? 337.41191277083095
Kate asked , watching them both now anxiously . 731.9923158699744
Their eyes betrayed too much of their emotions , she thought sadly . 924.9589605431141
Tomorrow . 22.338677578551994
Would you permit Juanita to walk about the grounds with me for a short spell , Mrs Lattimer ? 355.0859826732981
Stay here in the parlor where it 's cool , she said , trying to be calm . 206.15581613657147
It would be better for Joel and Uncle Randolph and Mrs Tussle not to see them . 135.70265938407437
Kate went back and reminded the kitchen women of the supper preparations . 1250.9472402282636
Then she took iced lemonade to Marsh 's young aide where he sat in the cool of the big trees around the flower garden . 319.15448210226106
When Marsh called to his aide and the pair rode off down the River Road where the gentians burned blue , Juanita was shaken and trying not to cry . 498.6524112561914
She sought Kate out upstairs , her lips trembling . 2537.083814376525
He wants me to go with him tomorrow , she told Kate . 575.152891462519
What do you want to do ? 327.7852196969845
Kate asked , uneasy at the gravity of the girl 's dilemma . 472.3280883403456
I could go with him . 101.9396544889879
He knows me as your niece , which , of course , I am . 268.0631312691577
But I am a slave ! 368.48563613171075
You own me . 538.710958747639
It 's your decision , said Juanita , holding her face very still , trying to contain the bitterness of her voice as she enunciated her words too distinctly . 421.1940681907625
No , the decision is yours . 240.94462328803283
I have held your papers of manumission since I married Mr Lattimer . 325.6066411904664
The red glow from the cove had died out of the sky . 133.27742776522655
The two in the bed knew each other as old people know the partners with whom they have shared the same bed for many years , and they needed to say no more . 410.54428330427186
The things left unsaid they both felt deeply , and with a sigh they fell back on the well-stuffed pillows . 208.47513456836484
Anita put out the remaining candles with a long snuffer , and in the smell of scented candlewick , the comforting awareness of each other 's bodies , the retained pattern of dancers and guests remembered , their minds grew numb and then empty of images . 233.88657515815382
They slept- Mynheer with a marvelously high-pitched snoring , the damn seahorse ivory teeth watching him from a bedside table . 120.66336773947084
In the ballroom below , the dark had given way to moonlight coming in through the bank of French windows . 322.83146717322705
It was a delayed moon , but now the sky had cleared of scudding black and the stars sugared the silver-gray sky . 213.61952107483543
Martha Schuyler , old , slow , careful of foot , came down the great staircase , dressed in her best lace-drawn black silk , her jeweled shoe buckles held forward . 369.80259811357513
Well , I 'm here at last , she said , addressing the old portraits on the walls . 363.1942042174187
I do n't hear the music . 196.02651981640807
I am getting deaf , I must admit it . 689.8274909159818
She came to the ballroom and stood on the two carpeted steps that led down to it . 176.91120493543073
Where is everyone ? 647.4569701971166
I say , where is everyone ? 361.81703083674057
Peter , you lummox , you 've forgot to order the musicians . 399.0424815921669
She stood there , a large old woman , smiling at the things she would say to him in the morning , this big foolish baby of a son . 304.5626017295669
There were times now , like this , when she lost control of the time count and moved freely back and forth into three generations . 478.01635113252723
Was it a birthday ball ? 1495.3204289534835
When Peter had reached his majority at eighteen ? 885.9285815550871
Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house , a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany , from Rensselaerwyck . 362.8067301776507
And this handsome booby , staring and sweating , was he her bridegroom ? 115.00522347259147
Martha picked up the hem of her gown and with eyes closed she slowly began to dance a stately minuet around the ballroom . 365.23904825961466
David Cortlandt was tired beyond almost the limits of his flesh . 433.5825771593634
He had ridden hard from Boston , and he was not used to horseback . 70.32898884574928
Now , driving the horse and sulky borrowed from Mynheer Schuyler , he felt as if every bone was topped by burning oil and that every muscle was ready to dissolve into jelly and leave his big body helpless and unable to move . 464.61169063173304
The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees , and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories . 378.72466623945724
He slapped the reins on the back of the powerful gray horse and held on as the sulky 's wheels hit a pothole and came out with a jolt and went on . 142.0554499246835
He would cross to Manhattan , to Harlem Heights , before morning . 675.4464912207935
There a certain farmhouse was a station for the Sons of Liberty . 188.03529415046938
He would send on by trusted messenger the dispatches with their electrifying news . 454.22651465848224
And he would sleep , sleep , and never think of roads and horses ' sore haunches , of colonial wars . 484.3230623365509
Strange how everything here fitted back into his life , even if he had been away so long . 308.5237140593926
Mynheer , Sir Francis , the valley society , the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks , and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road . 265.68313394789266
A mist was walking on the water , white as cotton , but with a blending and merging grace . 169.648558257345
Ahead there was a stirring of sudden movement at a crossroads . 314.2896874854581
David reached for the pair of pistols in the saddlebags at his feet . 117.86247241501856
He pulled out one of them and cocked it . 114.3624426929354
A strange wood creature came floating up from a patch of berry bushes . 1015.9742799417
It was a grotesque hen , five or six feet tall . 774.158730099962
It had the features of a man bewhiskered by clumps of loose feathers . 127.39092329398967
It ran , this apocalyptic beast , on two thin legs , and its wings- were they feathered arms ? - flapped as it ran . 193.45563868295926
Its groin was bloody . 35.627220118670316
Black strips of skin hung from it . 1417.6152461030706
The horse shied at the dreadful thing and flared its nostrils . 95.55100656872479
David took a firm hand with it . 473.52326030520766
The creature in feathers looked around and David saw the mad eyes , glazed with an insane fear . 631.3376401026895
The ungainly bird thing ran away , and to David its croaking sounded like the crowing of a tormented rooster . 112.17366505088064
Then it was gone . 112.48849794107201
He drove on , wary and shaken . 204.68088345282095
The Sons were out tonight . 675.7961150290522
CHAPTER 10 New York lay bleaching in the summer sun , and the morning fish hawk , flying in the heated air , saw below him the long triangular wedge of Manhattan Island . 424.61261339678964
It was thickly settled by fifteen thousand citizens and laid out into pig-infested streets , mostly around the Battery , going bravely north to Wall Street , but giving up and becoming fields and farms in the region of Harlem Heights . 489.7220702331513
From there it looked across at Westchester County and the Hudson River where the manor houses , estates , and big farms of the original non-Indian landowners began . 187.465881207772
On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound . 759.398479379309
On the western tip of Long Island protruded Brooklyn Heights . 1275.356958921196
It commanded a view over Manhattan and the harbor . 622.8581346934458
A fringe of housing and gardens bearded the top of the heights , and behind it were sandy roads leading past farms and hayfields . 558.6579131705367
Husbandry was bounded by snake-rail fences , and there were grazing cattle . 187.5243141216412
On the shores north and south , the fishers and mooncursers- smugglers- lived along the churning Great South Bay and the narrow barrier of sand , Fire Island . 398.6819582167163
The morning hawk , hungry for any eatable , killable , digestible item , kept his eyes on the ring of anchored ships that lay off the shores in the bay , sheltered by the Jersey inlets . 190.78293164709467
They often threw tidbits overboard . 669.1305966209512
The larger ships were near Paulus Hook , already being called , by a few , Jersey City . 303.2019454773174
These were the ships of His Majesty 's Navy , herding the hulks of the East Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists . 82.40180681661933
The news of battle on Breed 's Hill had already seeped through , and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress . 205.93199359177947
The fish hawk , his wings not moving , circled and glided lower . 169.0066353367973
The gilt sterns of the men-of-war becoming clearer to him , the sides of the wooden sea walls alternately painted yellow and black , the bronze cannon at the ports . 306.2195056603273
The captain 's gig of HMS Mercury was being rowed to HMS Neptune . 39.56485701503748
On shore the freed slaves to despotism- the town dwellers- watched the ships and waited . 503.55846124814394
The chevaux de frise , those sharp stakes and barriers around the fort at the Battery , pointed to a conflict between the town and sea power rolling in glassy swells as the tide came in . 228.08831251868995
Across the bay the Palisades were heavy in green timber ; their rock paths led down to the Hudson . 875.6846306265347
Below in the open bay facing Manhattan was Staten Island , gritty with clam shells and mud flats behind which nested farms , cattle barns , and berry thickets . 429.26849160563023
Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County , past the white church at Fishkill , past Verplanck 's Point on the east bank of the Hudson , to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen . 354.4432026225495
Today , tomorrow , six months , even perhaps a year h The fish hawk flew on and was lost from sight . 616.355502940612
The British ships rolled at anchor , sent out picket boats and waited for orders from London . 1739.1615783553984
Waited for more ships , more lobster-backed infantry , and asked what was to be done with a war of rebellion ? 241.47048998982808
David Cortlandt , having slept away a day and a night , came awake in a plank farmhouse on the Harlem River near Spuyten Duyvil . 225.29716524255954
He looked out through windowpanes turned a faint violet by sun and weather , looked out at King 's Bridge toward Westchester . 358.276158462179
The road seemed animated with a few more wagons than usual ; a carriage raising up the choking June dust , and beyond , in a meadow , a local militia company drilling with muskets , Kentuck ' rifles , every kind of horse pistol , old sword , or cutlass . 432.40167010802605
The wraith-like events of the last few days flooded David 's mind and he rubbed his unshaved chin and felt again the ache in his kidneys caused by his saddle odyssey from Boston . 420.1000595186972
Pensive , introspective , he ached . 14.881547312550303
He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept . 179.07793428388032
Now there was more to do . 140.84796921610857
Orders not written down had to be transmitted to the local provincial government . 284.96125023226097
He scratched his mosquito-plagued neck . 62.55668837132291
From the saddlebags , hung on a Hitchcock chair , David took out a good English razor , a present from John Hunter . 252.61209888876732
He found tepid water in a pitcher and a last bit of soap , and he lathered his face and stood stropping the razor on his broad leather belt , its buckle held firm by a knob of the bedpost h. He hoped he was free of self-deception . 190.24477300432017
Here he was , suddenly caught up in the delirium of a war , in the spite and calumny of Whigs and Tories . 138.61691617997866
There would be great need soon for his skill as surgeon , but somehow he had not planned to use his knowledge merely for war . 337.38957354719395
David Cortlandt had certain psychic intuitions that this rebellion was not wholly what it appeared on the surface . 217.74144848319762
He knew that many were using it for their own ends . 219.5193185639152
But it did not matter . 125.44661531990943
He stropped the razor slowly ; what mattered was that a new concept of Americans was being born . 136.77407659992974
That some men did not want it he could understand . 320.27339517823776
The moral aridity of merchants made them loyal usually to their ledgers . 319.0946941451449
Yet some , like Morris Manderscheid , would bankrupt themselves for the new ideas . 183.2912593051653
Unique circumstances would test us all , he decided . 340.8904059416337
Injury and ingratitude would occur . 58.34715852876784
No doubt John Hancock would do well now ; war was a smugglers ' heaven . 365.17696128046776
And what of that poor tarred and feathered wretch he had seen on the road driving down from Schuyler 's ? 180.1168927068471
Things like that would increase rather than be done away with . 809.8445360771696
One had to believe in final events or one was stranded in the abyss of nothing . 202.22817699516725
He saw with John Hunter now that the perfectability of man was a dream . 166.59340216742189
Life was a short play of tenebrous shadows . 298.95580918954835
David began to shave with great sweeping strokes . 1035.2912819440032
Time plays an essential part in our mortality , and suddenly for no reason he could imagine or admit the image of Peg laughing filled his mind- so desirable , so lusty , so full of nuances of pleasure and joy . 607.4781701864272
He drove sensual patterns off , carefully shaving his long upper lip . 585.4555790847032
It is harder , he muttered , to meditate on man or woman than on God . 236.44415013529172
David finished shaving , washed his face clean of lather , and combed and retied his hair . 194.3753605216758
He was proud that he had never worn a wig . 130.31075270034464
More and more of the colonials were wearing their own hair and not using powder . 293.51997973786456
He felt cheerful again , refreshed ; presentable in his wide-cut brown suit , the well-made riding boots . 229.38190743953965
It is so easy to falsify sentiment h. In the meadow below , militia officers shouted at their men and on King 's Bridge two boys sat fishing . 974.471569659042
The future would happen ; he did not have to hurry it by thinking too much . 400.67487467444306
A man could be tossed outside the dimension of time by a stray bullet these days . 595.9133204291559
He began to pack the saddlebags . 96.8088589051684
And all this too shall pass away it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy- yes , in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley , where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires . 262.95069861422087
Burly leathered men and wrinkled women in drab black rags carried on in a primitive way , almost unchanged from feudal times . 502.9536943089717
Peasants puzzled Andrei . 128.9463791013184
He wondered how they could go on in poverty , superstition , ignorance , with a complete lack of desire to make either their land or their lives flourish . 590.6877056989582
Andrei remembered a Bathyran meeting long ago . 363.783091127391
Tolek Alterman had returned from the colonies in Palestine and , before the national leadership , exalted the miracles of drying up swamps and irrigating the desert . 143.66741656077667
A fund-raising drive to buy tractors and machinery was launched . 652.6635373129194
Andrei remembered that his own reaction had been one of indifference . 227.4812906767293
Had he found the meaning too late ? 786.0249981903601
It aggravated him . 25.73991152119539
The land of the Lublin Uplands was rich , but no one seemed to care . 96.38704439161141
In the unfertile land in Palestine humans broke their backs pushing will power to the brink . 320.54433544114124
He had sat beside Alexander Brandel at the rostrum of a congress of Zionists . 60.02142360579807
All of them were there in this loosely knit association of diversified ideologies , and each berated the other and beat his breast for his own approaches . 321.64195648970025
When Alexander Brandel rose to speak , the hall became silent . 391.5909135296197
I do not care if your beliefs take you along a path of religion or a path of labor or a path of activism . 445.3003137311351
We are here because all our paths travel a blind course through a thick forest , seeking human dignity . 1484.2473208629162
Beyond the forest all our paths merge into a single great highway which ends in the barren , eroded hills of Judea . 393.8669013514614
This is our singular goal . 396.01783796753955
How we travel through the forest is for each man 's conscience . 397.6154398991315
Where we end our journey is always the same . 607.2325428381421
We all seek the same thing through different ways- an end to this long night of two thousand years of darkness and unspeakable abuses which will continue to plague us until the Star of David flies over Zion . 556.9629990389433
This was how Alexander Brandel expressed pure Zionism . 401.2485769092971
It had sounded good to Andrei , but he did not believe it . 126.94774931698522
In his heart he had no desire to go to Palestine . 128.53312254587382
He loathed the idea of drying up swamps or the chills of malaria or of leaving his natural birthright . 88.49284665130092
Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex , I only want to be a Pole . 129.06194264390606
Warsaw is my city , not Tel Aviv . 50.92504185165604
And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief . 186.0769146149531
Warsaw ! 65.81827352770962
He saw the smug eyes of the Home Army chief , Roman , and all the Romans and the faces of the peasants who held only hatred for him . 298.33391703650966
They had let this black hole of death in Warsaw 's heart exist without a cry of protest . 467.5248045373023
Once there had been big glittering rooms where Ulanys bowed and kissed the ladies ' hands as they flirted from behind their fans . 415.7114443459722
Warsaw ! 65.66835922225256
Warsaw ! 67.0499079289275
Miss Rak . 181.87313124236556
I am a Jew . 193.88966632399286
Day by day , week by week , month by month , the betrayal gnawed at Andrei 's heart . 352.3378355789485
He ground his teeth together . 390.9066562655402
I hate Warsaw , he said to himself . 94.16600859780367
I hate Poland and all the goddamned mothers ' sons of them . 465.4264497785654
All of Poland is a coffin . 125.55312939458658
The terrible vision of the ghetto streets flooded his mind . 715.8499234095661
What matters now ? 609.5646450458177
What is beyond this fog ? 651.2860328830859
Only Palestine , and I will never live to see Palestine because I did not believe . 165.2319090274381
By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin , which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front . 199.99167623317302
At a siding , another train which was a familiar sight these days . 636.656731685669
Deportees . 22.150755707168226
Jews . 1148.9735368271167
Andrei 's skilled eye sized them up . 215.6369659640383
They were not Poles . 45.41255081198544
He guessed by their appearance that they were Rumanians . 72.47020051517251
He walked toward the center of the city to keep his rendezvous with Styka . 87.96921972336557
Of all the places in Poland , Andrei hated Lublin the most . 268.4112825683656
The Bathyrans were all gone . 93.09195520523514
Few of the native Jews who had lived in Lublin were still in the ghetto . 296.4008811643859
From the moment of the occupation Lublin became a focal point . 167.3861373361583
He and Ana watched it carefully . 148.09319597950486
Lublin generally was the forerunner of what would happen elsewhere . 144.43009409155388
Early in 1939 , Odilo Globocnik , the Gauleiter of Vienna , established SS headquarters for all of Poland . 354.98285093486396
The Bathyrans ran a check on Globocnik and had only to conclude that he was in a tug of war with Hans Frank and the civilian administrators . 219.4671601421508
Globocnik built the Death's-Head Corps . 104.05889273998083
Lublin was the seed of action for the final solution of the Jewish problem . 123.3616605751948
As the messages from Himmler , Heydrich , and Eichmann came in through Alfred Funk , Lublin 's fountainhead spouted . 99.26210701666913
A bevy of interlacing lagers , work camps , concentration camps erupted in the area . 224.94581450731883
Sixty thousand Jewish prisoners of war disappeared into Lublin 's web . 476.78961996250746
Plans went in and out of Lublin , indicating German confusion . 567.787132289527
A tale of a massive reservation in the Uplands to hold several million Jews h A tale of a plan to ship all Jews to the island of Madagascar h Stories of the depravity of the guards at Globocnik 's camps struck a chord of terror at the mere mention of their names . 317.5691918524294
Lipowa 7 , Sobibor , Chelmno , Poltawa , Belzec , Krzywy-Rog , Budzyn , Krasnik . 17.710993797994483
Ice baths , electric shocks , lashings , wild dogs , testicle crushers . 68.04148459824926
The Death's-Head Corps took in Ukrainian and Baltic Auxiliaries , and the Einsatzkommandos waded knee-deep in blood and turned into drunken , dope-ridden maniacs . 44.98237829367218
Lublin was their heart . 63.09579156409157
In the spring of 1942 Operation Reinhard began in Lublin . 199.89679827813507
The ghetto , a miniature of Warsaw 's , was emptied into the camp in the Majdan-Tartarski suburb called Majdanek . 203.69240829232976
As the camp emptied , it was refilled by a draining of the camps and towns around Lublin , then by deportees from outside Poland . 156.3973475921782
In and in and in they poured through the gates of Majdanek , but they never left , and Majdanek was not growing any larger . 181.72521922385997
What was happening in Majdanek ? 149.04167914253347
Was Operation Reinhard the same pattern for the daily trains now leaving the Umschlagplatz in Warsaw ? 372.1367059086606
Was there another Majdanek in the Warsaw area , as they suspected ? 184.78939385035642
Andrei stopped at Litowski Place and looked around quickly at the boundary of civil buildings . 445.37183549523934
His watch told him he was still early . 424.13243101358324
Down the boulevard he could see a portion of the ghetto wall . 247.87398311573455
He found an empty bench , opened a newspaper , and stretched his legs before him . 502.2189564085841
Krakow Boulevard was filled with black Nazi uniforms and the dirty brownish ones of their Auxiliaries . 270.93639185453833
Captain Androfski ! 781.5945442773836
Andrei glanced up over the top of the paper and looked into the mustached , homely face of Sergeant Styka . 122.05225954811334
Styka sat beside him and pumped his hand excitedly . 122.95526579321488
I have been waiting across the street at the post office since dawn . 523.9316900807929
I thought you might get in on a morning train . 393.02621371946356
It 's good to see you again , Styka . 94.05571344035064
Styka studied his captain . 285.553961313723
He almost broke into tears . 616.0757149130321
To him , Andrei Androfski had always been the living symbol of a Polish officer . 167.91235509986674
His captain was thin and haggard and his beautiful boots were worn and shabby . 323.8924682527195
Remember to call me Jan , Andrei said . 547.7710230815572
Styka nodded and sniffed and blew his nose vociferously . 79.8544098388622
When that woman found me and told me that you needed me I was never so happy since before the war . 541.3854284383152
I 'm lucky that you were still living in Lublin . 318.5868504463349
Styka grumbled about fate . 120.9715253401681
For a time I thought of trying to reach the Free Polish Forces , but one thing led to another . 529.3392207114797
I got a girl in trouble and we had to get married . 320.05904705646014
Not a bad girl . 334.4894105267325
So we have three children and responsibilities . 448.46144160674504
I work at the granary . 39.41637205688567
Nothing like the old days in the army , but I get by . 203.25260135761357
Who complains ? 283.557925403851
Many times I tried to reach you , but I never knew how . 393.9521668021525
I came to Warsaw twice , but there was that damned ghetto wall h I understand . 275.6186716940087
Styka blew his nose again . 107.90074115605222
Were you able to make the arrangements ? 204.66425832080694
Andrei asked . 76.81793697362573
There is a man named Grabski who is the foreman in charge of the bricklayers at Majdanek . 110.95881775323747
I did exactly as instructed . 440.940180498095
I told him you are on orders from the Home Army to get inside Majdanek so you can make a report to the government in exile in London . 277.01816096962517
His answer ? 377.9434950027622
Ten thousand zlotys . 527.3482171426045
Can he be trusted ? 1384.5462309945053
He is aware he will not live for twenty-four hours if he betrays you . 332.35467815178686
Good man , Styka . 85.15408968018427
Captain h Jan h must you go inside Majdanek ? 2090.1422682357547
The stories h Everyone really knows what is happening there . 1484.331537845995
Not everyone , Styka . 123.71231101328424
What good will it really do ? 603.626596953946
I do n't know . 153.29990477603562
Perhaps h perhaps h there is a shred of conscience left in the human race . 267.97214421680445
Perhaps if they know the story there will be a massive cry of indignation . 290.2944158012144
Do you really believe that , Jan ? 989.3048512223913
I have to believe it . 116.60346577462727
Styka shook his head slowly . 372.9052297180518
I am only a simple soldier . 324.0296726823227
I can not think things out too well . 330.63636038961107
Until I was transferred into the Seventh Ulanys I was like every other Pole in my feeling about Jews . 344.5983244333405
I hated you when I first came in . 538.9169581845538
But h my captain might have been a Jew , but he was n't a Jew . 238.62434054165442
What I mean is , he was a Pole and the greatest soldier in the Ulanys . 71.87459855594157
Hell , sir . 129.62091670783127
The men of our company had a dozen fights defending your name . 619.196135559397
You never knew about it , but by God , we taught them respect for Captain Androfski . 359.6602199751968
Andrei smiled . 160.1144840890646
Since the war I have seen the way the Germans have behaved and I think , Holy Mother , we have behaved like this for hundreds of years . 643.1605963025017
Why ? 448.7557840967641
How can you tell an insane man to reason or a blind man to see ? 587.11504667683
But we are neither blind nor insane . 2567.691685549303
The men of your company would not allow your name dishonored . 263.69377168741454
Why do we let the Germans do this ? 642.8121064944647
I have sat many hours with this , Styka . 197.65690332449515
All I ever wanted was to be a free man in my own country . 232.41903729350807
I 've lost faith , Styka . 299.2701912314402
I used to love this country and believe that someday we 'd win our battle for equality . 615.1048072754112
But now I think I hate it very much . 450.35945248165626
And do you really think that the world outside Poland will care any more than we do ? 727.8982084852493
The question frightened Andrei . 220.21164167829028
Please do n't go inside Majdanek . 191.2361154368185
I 'm still a soldier in a very small way , Styka . 162.0560698045774
It was an answer that Styka understood . 114.58452569543553
Grabski 's shanty was beyond the bridge over the River Bystrzyca near the rail center . 209.0713920966326
Grabski sat in a sweat-saturated undershirt , cursing the excessive heat which clamped an uneasy stillness before sundown . 188.93538877677597
He was a square brick of a man with a moon-round face and sunken Polish features . 173.37266869492214
Flies swarmed around the bowl of lentils in which he mopped thick black bread . 198.95994431084495
Half of it dripped down his chin . 284.17604137359933
He washed it down with beer and produced a deep-seated belch . 156.7027103231109
Well ? 572.4571899248009
Andrei demanded . 155.16509810954184
Grabski looked at the pair of them . 69.95259752180384
He grunted a sort of yes answer . 157.41560901780244
My cousin works at the Labor Bureau . 1134.69594293063
He can make you work papers . 407.29228625644316
It will take a few days . 138.31654865193633
I will get you inside the guard camp as a member of my crew . 502.28533837705146
I do n't know if I can get you into the inner camp . 302.294032437477
Maybe yes , maybe no , but you can observe everything from the roof of a barrack we are building . 476.1866129407251
Grabski slurped his way to the bottom of the soup bowl . 98.56399430139966
Ca n't understand why the hell anyone wants to go inside that son-of-a-bitch place . 532.1702638185807
Orders from the Home Army . 200.42024799495016
Why ? 453.2802729238351
Nothing there but Jews . 586.4618602397459
Andrei shrugged . 14.38447065497652
We get strange orders . 1102.9829851833829
Well- what about the money ? 149.14042153055152
Andrei peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes . 163.84954551476005
Grabski had never seen so much money . 254.28642502686637
His broad flat fingers , petrified into massive sausages by years of bricklaying , snatched the bills clumsily . 329.9793610682879
This ai n't enough . 525.2041426424834
You get the rest when I 'm safely out of Majdanek . 350.53810892469744
I ai n't taking no goddamned chances for no Jew business . 715.9787016474525
Andrei and Styka were silent . 63.48608972341975
She was getting real dramatic . 1044.0536193373432
I 'd have been more impressed if I had n't remembered that she 'd played Hedda Gabler in her highschool dramatics course . 343.31606584181026
I did n't want her back on that broken record . 460.7997602713642
Nothing 's free in the whole goddam world , was all I could think of to say . 182.44350676771373
When I 'd delivered myself of that gem there was nothing to do but order up another drink . 449.7750864505659
I am , she said . 163.70742004542475
I 'd forgotten all about Thelma and the Kentucky Derby and how it was Thelma 's fifty dollars I was spending . 321.98732017869713
It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days , and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch . 443.7625969271359
Drunk or sober she was the most attractive woman in the world for me . 258.5780153509488
I was crazy about her all over again . 307.56206231248575
It was the call of the wild all right . 124.28171211850189
That evening turned out to be hell like all the others . 305.3209378166538
We moved down Broadway from ginmill to ginmill . 183.31735444032708
It was the same old routine . 100.9933492623339
Eileen got to dancing , just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice , and trying to pick up strange men , but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she 'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we 'd had together and there I was back on the hook . 448.88052267769
I did have the decency to call up Thelma and tell her I 'd met old friends and would be home late . 547.5138452775992
I could scratch her eyes out , Eileen cried and stamped her foot when I came back from the phone booth . 418.53062016067645
You know I do n't like my men to have other women . 378.4932240874895
I hate it . 196.18383541683008
I hate it . 196.89872573523377
She got so drunk I had to take her home . 433.73879075888556
It was a walk up on Hudson Street . 253.5731979559879
She just about made me carry her upstairs and then she clung to me and would n't let me go . 761.2884943231287
There was a man 's jacket on the chair and a straw hat on the table . 217.3942340133591
The place smelt of some kind of hair lotion these pimplike characters use . 280.72721205872745
What about Ballestre ? 108.91905338400588
I had to shake her to make her listen . 360.0722088384334
Precious . 22.451125049687363
What about him ? 168.96710185970534
Suddenly she was very mysterious and dramatic . 1044.426433796624
Precious and I allow each other absolute freedom . 494.2807596039018
We are above being jealous . 179.51185864163799
He 's used to me bringing home strange men . 786.9514562347653
I 'll just tell him you 're my husband . 688.9976201956979
He ca n't object to that . 248.36558857053245
Well I object . 661.8203990021483
If he pokes his nose in here I 'll slug him . 435.96394033161954
That really would be funny . 348.13999852056185
She began to laugh . 393.823565185439
She was still laughing when I grabbed her and started rolling her on the bed . 754.8221553827267
After all I 'm made of flesh and blood . 492.3028381375752
I 'm not a plaster saint . 702.6937852392683
Waking up was horrible . 196.98110199459973
Never in my life have I felt so remorseful about anything I 've done as I did about spending that night with my own wife . 570.7708042595741
We both had hangovers . 72.77934004427064
Eileen declared she could n't lift her head from the pillow . 271.17500033202066
She lay under the covers making jabbing motions with her forefinger telling me where to look for the coffeepot . 372.922152530671
I was stumbling in my undershirt trying to find my way around her damn kitchenette when I smelt that sickish sweet hairtonic smell . 243.7402781973652
There was somebody else in the apartment . 194.2376429430702
I stiffened . 26.86174570782051
Honest I could feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck like a dog 's that is going to get into a fight . 289.42867126009605
I turned around with the percolator in my hand . 105.69996321935879
My eyes were so bleary I could barely see him but there he was , a little smooth olivefaced guy in a new spring overcoat and a taffycolored fedora . 222.9957682613675
Brown eyes , eyebrow mustache . 108.16958425222532
Oval face without an expression in the world . 161.2760127238538
We did n't have time to speak before Eileen 's voice was screeching at us from the bed . 165.62698044652498
Joseph Maria Ballestre meet Francis Xavier Bowman . 866.9705045596813
Exboyfriend meet exhusband . 91.16137124144186
She gave the nastiest laugh I ever heard . 442.8275050334386
And do n't either of you forget that I 'm not any man 's property . 394.4512042160267
If you want to fight , go down on the sidewalk . 193.482043089526
She was enjoying the situation . 169.37104357196097
Imagine that . 48.691545417782876
Eileen was a psychologist all right . 215.39743382753952
Instead of wanting to sock the poor bastard I found myself having a fellowfeeling for him . 391.35258321939386
Maybe he felt the same way . 140.8373686713698
I never felt such a lowdown hound in my life . 110.97500721166153
First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffeecup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers . 264.7846218320133
I could n't face Thelma after that night . 255.33645080921758
I did n't even have the nerve to call her on the telephone . 263.74577647796247
I wrote her that I 'd met up with Eileen and that old bonds had proved too strong and asked her to send my clothes down by express . 692.1324142261993
Of course I had to give her Eileen 's address , but she never came near us . 299.24734877863796
All she did was write me a pleasant little note about how it was beautiful while it lasted but that now life had parted our ways and it was goodbye forever . 530.8091806166743
She never said a word about the fifty dollars . 406.1239071889789
She added a postscript begging me to be careful about drinking . 545.7602230682946
I must know that that was my greatest weakness underlined three times . 367.8567713175518
Afterwards I learned that Eileen had called Thelma on the telephone and made a big scene about Thelma trying to take her husband away . 215.81229695911313
That finished me with Thelma . 152.9287753033771
Trust Eileen to squeeze all the drama out of a situation . 146.1748615442132
And there I was shacked up with Eileen in that filthy fourth floor attic on Hudson Street . 391.53882695535856
I use the phrase advisedly because there was something positively indecent about our relationship . 679.2852117184882
I felt it and it ate on me all the time , but I did n't know how right I was till later . 317.36114438222535
What I did know was that Precious was always around . 139.37139053992237
He slept in the hall bedroom at the head of the stairs . 173.65631989807417
Who do you think pays the rent ? 1796.6948795816456
You would n't have me throw the poor boy out on the street , Eileen said when I needled her about it . 236.3635617118713
I said sure that was what I wanted her to do but she paid no attention . 448.0015138470343
Eileen had a wonderful way of not listening to things she did n't want to hear . 283.976132698733
Still I did n't think she was twotiming me with Precious right then . 314.4387147318083
To be on the safe side I never let Eileen get out of my sight day or night . 481.6166541542673
Precious had me worried . 214.54320414924854
I could n't make out what his racket was . 156.26066455077986
I 'd thought him a pimp or procurer but he did n't seem to be . 130.5594989337487
He was smooth and civil spoken but it seemed to me there was something tough under his selfeffacing manner . 381.53371795067346
Still he let Eileen treat him like a valet . 192.11016930011633
Whenever the place was cleaned or a meal served it was Precious who did the work . 367.25485030210695
I never could find out what his business was . 307.43267930376
He always seemed to have money in his pocket . 219.0413540535106
The phone had been disconnected but telegrams came for him and notes by special messenger . 258.8133439371205
Now and then he would disappear for several days . 333.151853749433
Connections was all he would say with that smooth hurt smile when I put leading questions . 694.2844869146778
Oh he 's just an international spy , Eileen would shout with her screechy laugh . 327.282186419716
Poor devil he ca n't have been too happy either . 1950.69271938024
He got no relief from drink because , though sometimes Precious would buy himself a drink if he went out with us in the evening , he 'd leave it on the table untouched . 402.32824835065935
When I was in liquor I rode him pretty hard I guess . 957.536759441837
Occasionally if I pushed him too far he 'd give me a look out of narrowed eyes and the hard cruel bony skull would show through that smooth face of his . 1131.824678661253
Some day , I told Eileen , that guy will kill us both . 435.43059157971527
She just would n't listen . 394.99014879759704
Getting drunk every night was the only way I could handle the situation . 412.21757714398973
Eileen seemed to feel the same way . 105.86534722602923
We still had that much in common . 188.82952103768372
The trouble was drinking cost money . 739.7328852636253
The way Eileen and I were hitting it up , we needed ten or fifteen dollars an evening . 514.154710694832
Eileen must have wheedled a little out of Precious . 65.66523890272803
I raised some kale by hocking the good clothes I had left over from my respectable uptown life , but when that was gone I did n't have a cent . 310.1308213019195
I do n't know what we would have done if Pat O'Dwyer had n't come to town . 344.98020050161034
Pat O'Dwyer looked like a heavier Jim . 656.8072271060847
He had the same bullet head of curly reddish hair but he did n't have Jim 's pokerfaced humor or his brains or his charm . 304.66458262591027
He was a big thick beefy violent man . 310.5535480677505
Now Pat may have been a lecher and a plugugly , but he was a good churchgoing Catholic and he loved his little sister . 173.88779434265354
Those O'Dwyers had that Irish clannishness that made them stick together in spite of politics and everything . 409.73485553667354
Pat took Eileen and me out to dinner at a swell steak house and told us with tears in his eyes how happy he was we had come together again . 339.2846547512658
Whom God hath joined etcetera . 920.9325939328498
The O'Dwyers were real religious people except for Kate . 661.8384194737349
Now it would be up to me to keep the little girl out of mischief . 228.60660864081655
Pat had been worried as hell ever since she 'd lost her job on that fashion magazine . 1824.7570101071049
It had gone big with the Hollywood girls when he told them his sister was an editor of Art and Apparel . 357.53069350800473
How about me trying to help her get her job back ? 748.7219776990087
All evening Eileen had been as demure as a little girl getting ready for her first communion . 495.709076522941
It just about blew us both out of the water when Eileen suddenly came out with what she came out with . 269.7117715632218
But brother I ca n't take a job right now , she said with her eyes on her ice cream , I 'm going to have a baby , Francis Xavier 's baby , my own husband 's baby . 542.6453014055722
My first thought was how had it happened so soon , but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we 'd been living together six weeks . 714.7310321987036
Pat meanwhile was bubbling over with sentiment . 857.8454869419531
Greatest thing that ever happened . 233.9823749468588
Now Eileen really would have to settle down to love honor and obey , and she 'd have to quit drinking . 633.9058212126582
He 'd come East for the christening , by God he would . 215.98504813040375
When we separated that evening Pat pushed a hundred dollar bill into Eileen 's hand to help towards a layette . 768.0024288377194
Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job . 384.53997204573557
Pat had contacts all over the labor movement . 800.1990835821473
A friend of Pat 's named Frank Sposato had just muscled into the Portwatchers ' Union . 311.76380240791246
The portwatchers were retired longshoremen and small time seafarers off towboats and barges who acted as watchmen on the wharves . 84.47440153392986
Most of them were elderly men . 468.01155622948636
It was responsible and sometimes dangerous work because the thieving is awful in the port of New York . 303.3884369771162
They were n't as well paid as they should have been . 277.44399703616335
One reason the portwatchers let Sposato take them over was to get the protection of his musclemen . 152.93810722587398
Sposato needed a front , some labor stiff with a clean record to act as business agent of the Redhook local . 501.6251028806764
There I was a retired wobbly and structural iron worker who 'd never gouged a cent off a fellow worker in my thirty years in the movement . 505.5314537256305
For once radicalism was a recommendation . 116.33076340899711
Sposato could n't wait to get me hired . 388.0244792167059
With my gray hair and my weatherbeaten countenance I certainly looked the honest working stiff . 715.6862936240349
The things a man will do for a woman . 214.39467204636472
There was one fact which Rector could not overlook , one truth which he could not deny . 184.96067411548248
As long as there were two human beings working together on the same project , there would be competition and you could no more escape it than you could expect to escape the grave . 438.99712527039793
No matter how devoted a man was , no matter how fully he gave his life to the Lord , he could never extinguish that one spark of pride that gave him definition as an individual . 415.2420993964399
All of the jobs in the mission might be equal in the eyes of the Lord , but they were certainly not equal in the eyes of the Lord 's servants . 160.82146012871826
It was only natural that Fletcher would strive for a position in which he could make the decisions . 205.11927372969933
Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it , not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel . 211.05734934208238
He was not sure how much of this desire was due to his devotion to the church and how much was his own ego , demanding to be satisfied , for the two were intertwined and could not be separated . 190.49055276325237
He wanted desperately to see Kayabashi defeated , the Communists in the village rooted out , the mission standing triumphant , for in the triumph of the Lord he himself would be triumphant , too . 243.0238473956601
But perhaps this was a part of the eternal plan , that man 's ambition when linked with God would be a driving , indefatigable force for good in the world . 244.76360947576524
He sighed . 237.07112163763696
How foolish it was to try to fathom the truth in an area where only faith would suffice . 260.6975367647189
He would have to work without questioning the motives which made him work and content himself with the thought that the eventual victory , however it was brought about , would be sweet indeed . 387.92471317557346
His first move was to send Hino to the village to spend a few days . 224.4178263331903
His arm had been giving him some trouble and Rector was not enough of a medical expert to determine whether it had healed improperly or whether Hino was simply rebelling against the tedious work in the print shop , using the stiffness in his arm as an excuse . 252.960212125293
In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked , telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning . 292.918928533634
Hino was elated at the prospect . 35.07960690317047
He was allowed to spend his nights at an inn near the hospital and he was given some extra money to go to the pachinko parlor- an excellent place to make contact with the enemy . 235.00096175497862
He left with all the joyous spirit of a child going on a holiday , nodding attentively as Rector gave him his final instructions . 160.54688029917023
He was to get involved in no arguments ; he was to try to make no converts ; he was simply to listen and report back what he heard . 231.66450257196456
It was a ridiculous situation and Rector knew it , for Hino , frankly partisan , openly gregarious , would make a poor espionage agent . 266.4048287316644
If he wanted to know anything , he would end up asking about it point-blank , but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection . 229.8321482315477
In all of his experience in the mission field Rector had never seen a convert quite like Hino . 271.09616252871007
From the moment that Hino had first walked into the mission to ask for a job , any job- his qualifications neatly written on a piece of paper in a precise hand- he had been ready to become a Christian . 269.319733263358
He had already been studying the Bible ; he knew the fundamentals , and after studying with Fletcher for a time he approached Rector , announced that he wanted to be baptized and that was that . 227.43245617093214
Rector had never been able to find out much about Hino 's past . 176.70414827434487
Hino talked very little about himself except for the infrequent times when he used a personal illustration in connection with another subject . 421.5664628695072
Putting the pieces of this mosaic together , Rector had the vague outlines of a biography . 72.97286690914181
Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast , in Chiba , and divided his life between the land and the sea , supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat . 329.33578287692524
Without exception Hino 's brothers turned to either one or both of their father 's occupations , but Hino showed a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller . 562.3609381188564
He had gone into the Japanese navy , had been trained as an officer , had participated in one or two battles- he never went into detail regarding his military experience- and at the age of twenty-five , quite as a bolt out of the blue , he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian . 277.5702657794104
Rector was often curious ; often tempted to ask questions but he never did . 613.9650096751558
If and when Hino decided to tell him about his experiences , he would do so unasked . 131.40375271213532
Rector had no doubt that Hino would come back from the village bursting with information , ready to impart it with his customary gusto , liberally embellished with his active imagnation . 140.75699816767278
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village , Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return , for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector 's office rarely rang unless it was important . 155.34064518822544
He was surprised to find Kayabashi 's secretary on the other end of the line . 103.86007829166917
He was even more startled when he heard what Kayabashi wanted . 122.2541863790388
The oyabun was entertaining a group of dignitaries , the secretary said , businessmen from Tokyo for the most part , and Kayabashi wished to show them the mission . 169.3381552174218
They had never seen one before and had expressed a curiosity about it . 272.10043476750536
Oh ? 780.2763668920006
Rector said . 38.77173260583218
I guess it will be all right . 273.5743536173841
When would the oyabun like to bring his guests up here ? 260.6242723161098
This afternoon , the secretary said . 236.64299614226337
At three o'clock if it will be of convenience to you at that time . 360.72172647175177
All right , Rector said . 88.35379872618068
I will be expecting them . 206.88637767756708
He was about to hang up the phone , but a note of hesitancy in the secretary 's voice left the conversation open . 217.28385518736943
He had something more to say . 112.44831598097201
I beg to inquire if the back is now safe for travelers , he said . 433.1454778539434
Rector laughed despite himself . 548.7300342308928
Unless the oyabun has been working on it , he said , then checked himself and added You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use . 311.8681560965242
Arigato gosaimasu . 14.305182352434485
The secretary sighed with relief and then the telephone clicked in Rector 's hand . 249.4007502043907
Rector had no idea why Kayabashi wanted to visit the mission . 230.3628882940415
For the oyabun to make such a trip was either a sign of great weakness or an indication of equally great confidence , and from all the available information it was probably the latter . 272.97965567865316
Kayabashi must feel fairly certain of his victory in order to make a visit like this , a trip which could be so easily misinterpreted by the people in the village . 245.40183949325237
At the same time , it was unlikely that any businessmen would spend a day in a Christian mission out of mere curiosity . 367.48898099763966
No , Kayabashi was bringing his associates here for a specific purpose and Rector would not be able to fathom it until they arrived . 207.08695018151062
When he had given the call a few moments thought , he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors , using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission , then he went outside to inspect the grounds . 316.7926464601594
Fujimoto had a pile of cuttings near one side of the lawn . 149.1469163610727
Rector asked him to move it for the time being ; he wanted the mission compound to be effortlessly spotless . 173.78271742898755
A good initial impression would be important now . 513.1097424171849
He went into the print shop , where Fletcher had just finished cleaning the press . 341.4976108193694
How many pamphlets do we have in stock ? 946.6588067083798
Rector said . 38.20507363990856
I should say about a hundred thousand , Fletcher said . 194.27370956930446
Why ? 448.75462846950853
I would like to enact a little tableau this afternoon , Rector said , He explained about the visit and the effect he wished to create , the picture of a very busy mission . 292.6638415469865
He did not wish to deceive Kayabashi exactly , just to display the mission activities in a graphic and impressive manner . 290.8845810275564
Fletcher nodded as he listened to the instructions and said he would arrange the things Rector requested . 383.6556259881344
Rector 's next stop was at the schoolroom , where Mavis was monitoring a test . 138.11541667191193
He beckoned to her from the door and she slipped quietly outside . 299.8492367128391
He told her of the visitors and then of his plans . 172.20970411497098
How many children do you have present today ? 944.307922937457
he said . 130.89825806450514
She looked back toward the schoolroom . 103.46161084451582
Fifteen , she said . 279.67371291041314
No , only fourteen . 494.4299932585448
The little Ito girl had to go home . 194.05787605591203
She has a pretty bad cold . 612.4729062924737
I would like them to appear very busy today , not busy exactly , but joyous , exuberant , full of life . 338.0879823376661
I want to create the impression of a compound full of children . 284.9789373686212
Do you think you can manage it ? 919.1739909668878
Mavis smiled . 159.9082424794312
I 'll try . 340.44848163553337
As Rector was walking back toward the residential hall , Johnson came out of the basement and bounded up to him . 287.5893504855484
The altercation in the coffee house had done little to dampen his spirits , but he was still a little wary around Rector for they had not yet discussed the incident . 175.90523383073307
I think I 've fixed the pump so we wo n't have to worry about it for a long time , he said . 395.84950494497826
I 've adjusted the gauge so that the pump cuts out before the water gets too low . 941.6700582180775
Fine , Rector said . 142.8279285113207
He looked out over the expanse of the compound . 58.00747594531479
It was going to take a lot of activity to fill it . 134.77833211436644
Have you ever operated a transit ? 2149.62598897712
he said . 130.43755859665242
No , sir , Johnson said . 419.9714461816671
You are about to become a first-class surveyor , Rector said . 136.451976526953
When Konishi gets back with the jeep , I want you to round up two or three Japanese boys . 332.3950617952364
Konishi can help you . 197.39483199445365
You 'll find an old transit in the basement . 388.12933171048445
The glass is out of it , but that wo n't matter . 210.81359748625536
It looks pretty efficient and that 's the important thing . 459.1728059491496
He went on to explain what he had in mind . 187.6568112071847
Johnson nodded . 4773.966017930712
He said he could do it . 76.5616233146256
Rector was warming to his over-all strategy by the time he got back to the residential hall . 269.619289854854
It was rather a childish game , all in all , but everybody seemed to be getting into the spirit of the thing and he could not remember when he had enjoyed planning anything quite so much . 296.6471739925364
He was not sure what effect it would have , but that was really beside the point when you got right down to it . 269.7164718285004
He was not going to lose the mission by default , and whatever reason Kayabashi had for bringing his little sight-seeing group to the mission , he was going to be in for a surprise . 158.28469051702803
He found Elizabeth in the parlor and asked her to make sure everything was in order in the residential hall , and then to take charge of the office while the party was here . 301.51115200163656
When everything had been done , Rector went back to his desk to occupy himself with his monthly report until three o'clock . 425.15148665954973
At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi 's party . 190.7974995135087
Then Rector , attired in his best blue serge suit , sat in a chair out on the lawn , in the shade of a tree , smoking a cigarette and waiting . 163.8906030976054
The air was cooler here , and the lacy pattern of the trees threw a dappled shadow on the grass , an effect which he found pleasant . 231.5861743996831
She concluded by asking him to name another hour should this one be inconvenient . 537.6366976124878
The fish took the bait . 113.35701279168444
He replied that he could not imagine what importance there might be in thus meeting with a stranger , but- joy of joys , he would be at home at the hour mentioned . 342.05889980944386
But when she called he had thought better of the matter and decided not to involve himself in a new entanglement . 218.6824632697968
She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed . 237.62367569396767
Claire was bitterly disappointed but determined not to let the rebuff daunt her purpose . 337.03166891303016
She wrote again and now , abandoning for the moment the theme of love , she asked for help in the matter of her career . 248.870118307572
She could act and she could write . 369.38619605888925
His lordship was concerned in the management of Drury Lane but , if there were no opportunities there , would he read and criticize her novel ? 211.1904800571041
At last he consented to meet her , and following that brief interview Claire wrote him a yet more remarkable proposal Have you any objection to the following plan ? 802.6636040619186
On Thursday evening we may go out of town together by some stage or mail about the distance of ten or twelve miles . 690.1394537744027
There we shall be free and unknown ; we can return the following morning h She concluded by asking for a brief interview- to settle with you where- and she threw in a tribute to his gentle manners and the wild originality of your countenance . 467.28971323442363
She opened his reply with trembling fingers h he agreed ! 1497.012290194043
And he would see her that evening . 222.86087315417154
Victory at last ! 2859.822104036948
At their meeting he told her not to bother about where- he would attend to that . 386.6565322644326
There was one of the new forte-pianos in the room and , as Claire rose to go , he asked her to sing him one song before she left . 175.63798006382362
She sang him Scott 's charming ballad Rosabelle , which was the vogue of the moment . 218.9439711533146
She had never sung better . 734.8156679749799
Your voice is delightful , he approved with a warm smile . 796.1649343204743
Tomorrow will be a new experience- I have never before made love to a nightingale h. There have been cooing doves , chattering magpies , thieving jackdaws , a proud peacock , a silly goose , and a harpy eagle- whom I was silly enough to mate with and who is now busy tearing at my vitals . 180.51027821773698
And so they went , he choosing of all places an inn near Medmenham Abbey , scene a generation ago of the obscene orgies of the Hellfire Club . 222.98183107237344
He regaled Claire with an account of the mock mass performed by the cassocked bloods , which he had had at firsthand from old Bud Dodington , one of the leaders of the so-called Order . 140.7497695546726
Each wore the monkish scourge at his waist but this , it seems , was not employed for self-flagellation h. Naked girls danced in the chancel of the Abbey , the youngest and seemingly the most innocent being chosen to read a sermon filled with veiled depravities . 302.1539758834106
The jaded amorist conjured up pictures of the blasphemous rites with relish . 77.45469215739719
Alas , all that belonged to the age of Devil Dashwood and Wicked Wilkes , abbot and beadsman of the Order ! 51.220340272485544
The casual seduction of a seventeen-year-old bluestocking seemed tame by comparison . 79.96097485819193
They passed close by the turn to Bishopsgate . 159.03853688331193
A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace , the air about them scented with stock , and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden . 299.4502529037853
Charming and peaceful- but what were charm and peace compared to high adventure ? 449.9420398522572
Alone with the fabulous Byron ! 625.8463619569065
How many women had longed for the privilege that was hers . 266.9993091879809
How was she to behave , Claire wondered . 206.4981650213191
To be passive , to be girlishly shy was palpably absurd . 288.2534477450862
She was the pursuer as clearly as was Venus in Shakespeare 's poem . 244.0535138297443
And while her Adonis did not suffer from inexperience , satiety might well be an equal handicap . 258.430163165335
No , she would not pretend modesty , but neither must she be crudely bold . 237.1409451719085
Mystery- that was the thing . 56.56306514007214
In the bedroom she would insist on darkness . 564.83963622756
With his club foot he might well be grateful . 711.9680471872408
At the inn , which was situated close to a broad weir , Byron was greeted by the landlord with obsequious deference and addressed as milord . 113.56017437896385
The place was evidently a familiar haunt and Claire wondered what other illicit loves had been celebrated in the comfortable rooms to which they were shown . 348.62070812852465
The fire in the sitting room was lighted . 318.32884639532256
What about the bedroom ? 257.85716119075846
Byron inquired . 9317.720071988782
Seems to me last time I was here the grate bellowed out smoke as it might have been preparing us for hell . 394.265315349217
We found some owls had built a nest in the chimney , milord , but I promise you you 'll never have trouble of that sort again . 351.94797113237195
So , not only had he been here before , but it seemed he might well come again . 223.6848716966347
Claire felt suddenly small and cheap , heroine of a trivial episode in the voluminous history of Don Juan . 239.66232093101104
A cold supper was ordered and a bottle of port . 547.5171006344043
When Napoleon 's ship had borne him to Elba , French wines had started to cross the Channel , the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years , but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled . 445.560163593258
As they waited for supper they sat by the fire , glasses in hand , while Byron philosophized as much for his own entertainment as hers . 379.53958186499733
Sex is overpriced , he said . 24.677660571404804
The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate , not man against man for the prize of a woman 's body . 298.93763321822644
So do n't see yourself as a heroine or fancy this little adventure is an event of major importance . 536.4732322867189
The gods seemed to think sex pretty important , she rebutted . 453.2433162511962
Mars and Venus , Bacchus and Ariadne , Jupiter and Io , Byron and the nymph of the owl 's nest . 110.62839614709988
That would be Minerva , I suppose . 68.6742937545232
Was n't the owl her symbol ? 477.0012327417807
Byron laughed . 4511.678440039
So you know something of the classics , do you ? 325.39642122236694
Tell me about Minerva , how she behaved , what she did to please you . 296.1731312899256
I 'll tell you nothing . 362.6339248031128
I do n't ask you who 't is you 're being unfaithful to , husband or lover . 385.61192549553317
Frankly , I do n't care . 96.79781933288598
For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity , who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind . 421.55399378112867
Very well , she said , I 'll not catechize you . 170.59886395725985
What matter the others so long as I have my place in history . 411.9260425959425
She was striking the right note . 357.5962621289323
No man ever had a better opinion of himself and indeed , with one so favored , flattery could hardly seem overdone . 283.5633180511565
Brains and beauty , high position in both the social and intellectual worlds , athlete , fabled lover- if ever the world was any man 's oyster it was his . 256.59363632773653
The light supper over , Claire went to him and , slipping an arm about his shoulder , sat on his knee . 252.66321243214085
He drew her close and , hand on cheek , turned her face to his . 485.1236673507763
Her lips , moist and parted , spoke his name . 443.9094512573534
Byron ! 13528.344612147168
His hand went to her shoulder and pushed aside the knotted scarf that surmounted the striped poplin gown ; then , to better purpose , he took hold of the knot and with dextrous fingers , untied it . 162.41988015682819
The bodice beneath was buttoned and , withdrawing his lips from hers , he set her upright on his knee and started to undo it , unhurriedly as if she were a child . 118.41017613172683
But , kindled by his kiss , his caressing hand , her desire was aflame . 50.17037418864751
She sprang up and went swiftly to the bedroom . 509.69570146042344
Lord Byron poured himself another glass of wine and held it up to the candle flame admiring the rich color . 1455.6855418339007
He drank slowly with due appreciation . 341.57538592705276
It was an excellent vintage . 53.65835210371163
He rose and went to the bedroom . 130.0586762098025
Pausing in the doorway he said The form of the human female , unlike her mind and her spirit , is the most challenging loveliness in all nature . 192.49032315934087
When Claire returned to Bishopsgate she longed to tell them she had become Byron 's mistress . 320.765699255109
By odd coincidence , on the evening of her return Shelley chose to read Parisina , which was the latest of the titled poet 's successes . 405.5472717110697
As he declaimed the sonorous measures , it was as much as Claire could do to restrain herself from bursting out with her dramatic tidings . 216.304146180185
Although it is not the best of which he is capable , said Shelley as he closed the book , it is still poetry of a high order . 213.2367839028713
If he would only leave the East , said Mary . 278.09457105303557
I am tired of sultans and scimitars . 91.95592382039108
The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte , said Claire , with slightly overdone carelessness . 143.57189652385344
How do you know that ? 312.20974021806103
demanded Mary . 2244.5882358132844
I was told it on good authority , Claire answered darkly . 166.78411712090193
I must n't tell , I must n't tell , she repeated to herself . 366.2215332627319
I promised him I would n't . 322.4900478375952
CHAPTER 9 WINTER CAME , and with it Mary 's baby- a boy as she had wished . 283.5715717479636
William , he was called , in honor of the man who was at once Shelley 's pensioner and his most bitter detractor . 208.26553362359002
With a pardonable irony Shelley wrote to the father who had publicly disowned his daughter Fanny and Mrs Godwin will probably be glad to hear that Mary has safely recovered from a very favorable confinement , and that her child is well . 508.30562402094733
At the same time another child- this one of Shelley 's brain- was given to the world Alastor , a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind 's musings . 146.16032525576935
Alastor was published only to be savagely attacked , contemptuously ignored . 144.55965012419392
Shelley sent a copy to Southey , a former friend , and another to Godwin . 199.889427998844
Neither acknowledged the gift . 1085.8088214293282
Only Mary 's praise sustained him in his disappointment . 724.91634365672
She understood completely . 972.9156278255713
Not a thought nor a cadence was missed in her summary of appreciation . 421.3507689690227
You have made the labor worth while , he said to her , smiling . 299.88325654399966
And in the future , since I write for a public of one , I can save the poor publishers from wasting their money . 220.60978319456524
A public of one , Mary echoed reprovingly . 88.55451813741678
how can you say such a thing ? 885.7921262745206
There will be thousands who will thrill to the loveliness of Alastor . 59.919363805506514
There are some even now . 163.6515470881694
What about that dear , clever Mr Thynne ? 542.078896418954
I am sure he is in raptures . 126.69998221446959
Poor Mr Thynne , he always has to be trotted out for my encouragement . 200.50468110742113
There are other Mr Thynnes . 127.24552771646391
Not everyone is bewitched by Byron 's caliphs and harem beauties . 134.56858798282096
Mary 's supercritical attitude toward Byron had nothing to do with his moral disrepute . 337.1820925368426
She was resentful of his easy success as compared with Shelley 's failure . 318.7946805399002
The same month that Alastor was published , Murray sold twenty thousand copies of The Siege of Corinth , a slovenly bit of Byronism that even Shelley 's generosity rebelled at . 334.8299312426404
The lordly poet was at low-water mark . 104.88088730888637
The careless writing was in keeping with his mood of savage discontent . 1028.6616551125012
On all sides doors were being slammed in his face . 322.4309555297762
The previous scandals , gaily diverting as they were , had only served to increase his popularity . 197.09657269089274
Now , under the impact of his wife 's disclosures , he was brought suddenly to the realization that there was a limit to tolerance , however brilliant , however far-famed the offender might be . 156.86785264375493
He tried defiance and openly flaunted his devotion to his half sister , but he soon saw , as did she , that this course if persisted in would involve them in a common ruin . 455.74550047447366
For the moment there was no woman in his life , and it was this vacuum that had given Claire her opportunity . 172.34999039227563
But the liaison successfully started in the last days of autumn was now languishing . 303.39872058642277
Byron , since the separation from his wife had been living in a smallish house in Piccadilly Terrace . 175.22983504143946
He refused to bring Claire to it even as an occasional visitor , claiming that his every move was watched by spies of the Milbankes . 206.9916818589448
Beckworth handed the pass to the colonel . 191.7542671752636
He had thought that the suggestion of taking it himself would tip the colonel in the direction of serving his own order , but the slip of paper was folded and absently thrust into the colonel 's belt . 284.7108486306269
Despite his yearning , the colonel would not go down to see the men come through the lines . 269.7033024540476
He would remain in the tent , waiting impatiently , occupied by some trivial task . 368.7829526605306
-Beckworth . 22.344081844117287
-Sir ? 48.75757736634453
-Fetch me the copies of everything B and C companies have requisitioned in the last six months . 348.5618397809741
-The last six months , sir ? 916.6068676629517
-You heard me . 121.87136138842773
There 's a lot of waste going on here . 310.5931008942248
It 's got to stop . 252.80093890775703
I want to take a look . 164.78549096305733
This is no damned holiday , Beckworth . 69.59506395209706
Get busy . 4938.42093697363
-Yes , sir . 129.71834286378814
Beckworth left the tent . 154.11565674214287
Below he could see the bright torches lighting the riverbank . 205.53041039489733
He glanced back . 246.41007040015754
The colonel crouched tensely on one of the folding chairs , methodically tearing at his thumbnail . 159.41821454196804
9 THE BOMBPROOF was a low-ceilinged structure of heavy timbers covered with earth . 216.51907982160097
It stood some fifty paces from the edge of the bank . 280.53725901401117
From the outside , it seemed no more than a low drumlin , a lump on the dark earth . 130.84277375613004
A crude ladder ran down to a wooden floor . 680.9420459549525
Two slits enabled observers to watch across the river . 594.8485514785424
The place smelled strongly of rank , fertile earth , rotting wood and urine . 175.07972700274996
The plank floor was slimed beneath Watson 's boots . 374.7706955570683
At least the Union officer had been decent enough to provide a candle . 453.9301923426715
There was no place to sit , but Watson walked slowly from the ladder to the window slits and back , stooping slightly to avoid striking his head on the heavy beams . 300.83713922122234
In the corner was the soldier with the white flag . 172.78857479678103