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Дарли, Мелисса, Жюстин
As I opened the door of my room I could still see the imprint of Justine's foot in the wet sand. Melissa was reading, and looking up at me she said with characteristic calm foreknowledge: 'Some¬thing has happened - what is it?' I could not tell her since I did not myself know. I took her face in my hands and examined it silently, with a care and ( Read more... ) -
Измена
She got up now and walked away down the long curving perspective of the beach, crossing the pools of lava slowly, her head bent; and I thought of Nessim's handsome face smiling at her from every mirror in the room. The whole of the scene which we had just enacted was invented in my mind' with a dream-like improbability. It was curious in an ( Read more... ) -
Измена
We lay for a long time, side by side in our wet bathing costumes to take the last pale rays of the sun upon our skins in the delicious evening coolness. I lay with half-shut eyes while Justine (how clearly I see her!) was up on one elbow, shading her eyes with the palm of one hand and watching my face. Whenever I was talking she had the habit of ( Read more... ) -
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All this I have come to regard as a sort of overture to that first real meeting face to face, when such understanding as we had enjoyed until then - a gaiety and friendship founded in tastes which were common to the three of us - disintegrated into some¬thing which was not love - how could it have been? - but into a sort of mental possession in ( Read more... ) -
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We stood there, Nessim and I, for a good half-second, aston¬ished by the scene which had a sort of horrifying beauty - like some hideous coloured engraving for a Victorian penny bible, say, whose subject matter had somehow become distorted and dis¬placed. Justine was breathing harshly in a manner which sug¬gested that she was on the point of tears ( Read more... ) -
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The scene upon which we intruded was ferociously original, if for no other reason than that the light, pushing up from the mud floor, touched out the eyebrows and lips and cheek-bones of the while it left great patches of shadow on their faces - so that they looked as if they had been half-eaten by the rats which one could hear scrambling among the ( Read more... ) -
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At the fort we doubled back and entered the huddled slums which lie behind Tatwig Street, our blond headlights picking out the ant-hill cafes and crowded squares with an unaccustomed radiance; from somewhere behind the immediate skyline of smashed and unlimbered houses came the piercing shrieks and ululations of a burial procession, whose ( Read more... ) -
Жюстин
That Nessim had her watched I for a long time doubted; after all, she seemed as free as a bat to flit about the town at night, and never did I hear her called upon to give an account of her move¬ments. It could not have been easy to Spy upon someone so protean, in touch with the life of the town at so many points. Nevertheless it is possible that ( Read more... ) -
Парацельс
Это продолжение разговора Дарли и Жюстин. Того разговора, где она спрашивала его ( Read more... )
