A Dill Pickle
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1. And then, after six years, she saw him again. He was ated at one of tho little bamboo tables decorated with a Japane va of paper daffodils. He was peeling an orange.
2. He must have felt that shock of recognition in her for looked up and met her eye! Incredible! He didn't know her. She smiled, he frowned. She came towards him. He clod his eyes an instant, but opening them his face lit up as though he had struck a match in a dark room. He laid down the orange and pushed back his chair.
3. "Vera!" he exclaimed. "How strange. Really, for a moment I didn't know you. Won't you sit down Won't you have some coffee"
4. "Yes, I'd like some coffee." And she sat down opposite him.
5. "You've changed. You've changed very much," he said, staring at her with eager, lighted look. "You look so well. I've never en you look so well before."
6. "Really" She raid her veil and unbuttoned her high fur collar. "I don't feel very well. I can't bear this weather, you know."
复韵母都有什么7. "Ah, no. You hate "
8. "Loathe it." She shuddered. "And the worst of it is that the older "
9. He interrupted her. "Excu me," and tapped on the table for waitress. "Plea bring some coffee and cream." To her:" You are sure you won't eat anything"
10. "No, thanks. Nothing."
11. "Then that's ttled." And smiling he took up the orange again. "You were saying--the older one grows--"
生活美容12. "The colder," she laughed. But she was thinking how well she remembered that trick
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of his--the trick of interrupting her--and of how it ud to exasperate her six years ago.
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13. "The colder," he echoed her words, laughing too. "Ah, ah. You still say the same things and there is another thing about you that is not changed at all-- your beautiful voice. I don't know what it is-- I've often wondered--that makes your voice such a -- Do you remember that first afternoon we spent together at Kew Garden You were so surprid becau I did not know the names of any flowers. I am still just as ignorant for all your telling me. But whenever it's very fine and warm, and I e some bright colour I hear your voice saying:' Geranium, marigold, and verbena,’ You remember that afternoon"
14. " Oh, yes, very well." She drew a long, soft breath. Yet, what had remained in her mind of that particular afternoon was an absurd scene. A great many people taking tea in a Chine pagoda, and he behaving like a maniac about the wasps--waving them away, flapping at them with his straw hat, rious and infuriated out of all proportion to the occasion. How she had suffered.
15. But now, as he spoke, that memory faded. His was the truer.
16. Yes, it had been a wonderful afternoon, full of flowers and --warm sunshine. Her thoughts lingered over the last two words. And in the warmth, as it were, another memory unfolded. She saw herlf sitting on a lawn. He lay beside her, and suddenly, he rolled over and put his head in her lap.
17. "I wish," he said in a low, troubled voice," I wish that I had taken poison and were about to die-- here now!"
18. She leaned over him.
19. "Ah, why do you say that"
20. But he gave a kind of soft moan, and taking her hand he held it to his cheek.
delight21. "Becau I know I am going to love you too much. And I shall suffer so terribly, Vera, becau you never, never will love me."
22. He was certainly far better looking now than he had been then. He had lost all that dreamy vagueness and indecision. Now he had the air of a man who has found his place in life. He must have made money, too. His clothes were admirable, and at that moment he pulled a Russian cigarette ca out of his pocket.
23. "Won't you smoke"
24. "Yes, I will." She hovered over them. "They look very good."
25. "I get them made for me by a little man in St James's Street. I don't smoke very much, 奥巴马竞选演讲稿新视野英语but when I do, they must be delicious. Smoking isn't a habit with me; it's a luxury--like perfume. Are you still so fond of perfumes Ah, when I "
26. She broke in:"You've really been to Russia"
27. "Oh, yes. I was there for over a year. Have you forgotten how we ud to talk of going there"
28. "No, I've not forgotten."
29. He gave a strange half laugh and leaned back in his chair.
30. "Isn't it curious I have really carried out all tho journeys that we planned. In fact, I have spent the last three years of my life travelling all the time. Spain, Corsica, Siberia, Russia, Egypt. The only country left is China, and I mean to go there, too, when the war is over."
31. gulfstreamasynctaskAs he spoke, so lightly, tapping the end of his cigarette against the ashtray, she felt the strange beast that had slumbered so long within her bosom stir, stretch itlf, yawn, prick up its ears, and suddenly bound to its feet, and fix its longing, hungry stare upon tho far away places. But all she said was, smiling gently:"How I envy you."
