lovely linen up there or one of those nice kimono things I must buy
a mothball like I had before to keep in the drawer with them it would be
exciting going around with him shopping buying those things in a new
city better leave this ring behind want to keep turning and turning to get
it over the knuckle there or they might bell it round the town in their papers
or tell the police on me but theyd think were married O let them all go
and smother themselves for the fat lot I care he has plenty of money and hes
not a marrying man so somebody better get it out of him if I could find out
whether he likes me I looked a bit washy of course when I looked close in the
handglass powdering a mirror never gives you the expression besides scrooching
down on me like that all the time with his big hipbones hes heavy too with his
hairy chest for this heat always having to lie down for them better for him put
it into me from behind the way Mrs Mastiansky told me her husband made her
like the dogs do it and stick out her tongue as far as ever she could and he so
quiet and mild with his tingating cither can you ever be up to men the way it
takes them lovely stuff in that blue suit he had on and stylish tie and socks with
the skyblue silk things on them hes certainly welloff I know by the cut his
clothes have and his heavy watch but he was like a perfect devil for a few
minutes after he came back with the stop press tearing up the tickets and
swearing blazes because he lost 20 quid he said he lost over that outsider
that won and half he put on for me on account of Lenehans tip cursing him
to the lowest pits that sponger he was making free with me after the Glencree
dinner coming back that long joult over the featherbed mountain after the lord
Mayor looking at me with his dirty eyes Val Dillon that big heathen I first noticed
him at dessert when I was cracking the nuts with my teeth I wished I could have
picked every morsel of that chicken out of my fingers it it was so tasty and
browned and as tender as anything only for I didnt want to eat everything
on my plate those forks and fishslicers were hallmarked silver too I wish
I had some I could easily have slipped a couple into my muff when I was
playing with them then always hanging out of them for money in a
restaurant for the bit you put down your throat we have to be thankful
for our mangy cup of tea itself as a great compliment to be noticed the
way the world is divided in any case if its going to go on I want at least
two other good chemises for one thing and but I dont know what kind of
drawers he likes none at all I think didnt he say yes and half the girls in
Gibraltar never wore them either naked as God made them that Andalusian
singing her Manola she didnt make much secret of what she hadnt yes and the
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