I, you see, have had my feet on themainland for
some time now, he would say.
He had lostnine by the first use of his
name.
Then Angela the great would ascend the
cart.
Presently Anthony was tasting oranges and drinking
from cocoanutsin Mauritius. In a yearhe was able to answer letters that required no
more than aperfunctory reply. One, mymothers brother, smoothed the path for me. Or
they threw worm-eaten tomes at one another.
Its not only statements yemaun be keerfu aboot, its
questions, too.
They would get up at last and go over by the fire.
Later Toussaint putAnthony to copying out correspondence with French firms. From the
vast mass ofher mother she had sprouted like an unexpected, delicate bud from alog.
New influences which he could not fully control were impinging uponhis pupils
mind.
Roman life did not come to an end for him when
Cicero ceased tofulminate.
He began tolisten to the English words for things.
Did you see yon laddie gang off wi your tidings?
Some time he would creepback whence he had come.
Her effect upon him was something of a paradox. As this went onand her voice
accompanied it, he would slowly drift into sleep. From it floatedback faintly
musical lamentations.
Toussaint and the clerkskept calling them off to
one another hour after hour. At Malta thedrinking water is all brought from Africa
and stinks.
An hour of this after supper, and theywould sit
down to write the letters resulting from the talk.
In the sectionof correspondence in the office he
would pass from stool to stool.
In the sectionof correspondence in the office he
would pass from stool to stool. It was dinned into his ears at the tableand in the
house. From it floatedback faintly musical lamentations. He absorbed it at
aremarkable rate, in gulps.
I will not write myname on papers, and I shall
certainly learn English.