” The strain in
her face was visible as she tried to remember. He had not been successful as the world counted success; the fat
bank-account, the filled waiting room of which he had once dreamed, had never
materialized except in the smoke of his evening pipe. “Stupid cow. Then she spoke, with a carelessness he instantly suspected. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion
and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present
it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal
description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those
valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a
swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of
determined women at war with the universe. It is not a dissipated face. It hung from the centre of a stout pole, each end of which
rested upon the calloused shoulder of a coolie; an ordinary Occidental chair with
a foot-rest. You don’t have to have a lot of money to have your own
style. How plainly he could see the patch of garden in the
summer sunshine and the white hollyhocks nodding above the picket fence!
*****
Ruth sat waiting for the half hour, subconsciously. Marina gently passed the swaddled infant
to his mother, who sat down on the bed proudly to nurse
the baby, extracting a fat breast from her heavy gown.
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