THE EQUINOX
“Then you believe in the Brothers?“
”As I revel in the kisses of your mouth,” said the boy,
crushing her face against his.
A rich gladness filled her eyes, moist gladness; one might
say the first gush of an artesian well amid the seas of sand.
" Well,” quoth she, cheerful and brisk, to let the mask fall
on her blushing soul, “ we have got through six dozen oysters
and a devil of a lot of Burgundy.
.
.
. I wonder if I am
hungry! "
She looked him between the eyes.
"Hors d’oeuvresl” said Edgar. “I have a box for the
Sam Hall fight"
“ Oh do
take me,” she
panted.
“Will
he beat Joe
Marie?" she added, with a touch of anxiety,
“He has the
weight, and the experience, and the record.”
“Fools are betting he will.
My money is on the man
with three years younger, six inches taller, and twelve inches
longer reach to his credit.
And a twenty—four times harder
skull.”
“ It’s his skin I love."
" The only thing a woman ever can love."
“ And his activity”
" Exactly.
You
cannot
understand Being,
which
is
Peace.”
“ Don’t!
You are near my secret, now."
“ Wait till the grey hours I "
She dropped three napoleons on the plate, and disdaining
to wait for the change, took Edgar’s arm in hers‘
They
hailed a fiacre.
"By the way, I don’t know your name," he began, as
they clattered down the Boul’ Mich’.
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