Ex-wife
Ex-wife
作者：Parrott, Ursula, 1899-1957
体例：题 章数：95
字数：302,416 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 95 题- EX-WIFE
- Ursula Parrott
- Ex-Wife
- I said, “On the far side of hell.”
- II
- III
- I said “Yes.”
- I said, “This is rather surprising. Why?”
- I thought one of us had gone mad, and did not believe it was I.
- I said, “Why do you want to marry her, all of a sudden?”
- I went to bed. Pete spent the night in Hilda’s room.
- I said to myself, “That too may go past,” and kept my head.
- I said, “By you, by you, damn you and you know it.”
- I said, “You are a nice man.”
- I felt very grateful to this capable young man.
- I had said to him, “I’m having an abortion this morning.”
- I wonder if those are last words from Peter in this life.
- I only read a sentence or two of the top one.
- I looked at the banjo clock. It was twenty minutes to eleven.
- IV
- I smiled, looking friendly, I hope.
- I was not interested in daybeds. “Who is Checko?” I said.
- I found a bottle of port Pete had left and gave it to the moving men.
- I had heard from him. I had a note. I got it and showed it to Lucia.
- I giggled. “Wonderful, Lucia . . . Did she ever cut in on you?”
- I had to wait some time.
- VI
- I was very angry. “No more of a slut than Judith!”
- I felt tired. Where was this leading?
- I said nothing.
- I did not feel any better, but after a while I stopped crying.
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- I was sixteen.
- I never have, since.
- I did not answer him.
- I said nothing.
- I knocked on the housekeeper’s door.
- I had got over any grief for him.
- I grew calm, under the ineffably kind touch of her hands.
- XI
- I said, “Good God, I mean how marvellous.”
- I went to placate the millinery buyer.
- I looked up and smiled.
- I said, “What does that mean?”
- I walked upstairs, thinking that Bill was a very nice man.
- XII
- I felt somewhat apologetic, and said that Sam was a grand person.
- I put on my coat. “Lucia, is Sam really what you want?”
- I called downstairs.
- I waited for him to begin whatever he planned to begin.
- XIII
- I thought that it had been very nice of Dudley to be a witness for me.
- I wondered if I were supposed to frame it.
- I said “Good-bye” to Nora.
- XIV
- I said, “I can’t. I have to go to Lucia’s wedding.”
- I felt a little sick.
- I said, “Oh Kenneth, darling . . .”
- XV
- I had a letter from Lucia:
- I had a letter and a package from Kenneth. I opened the letter first:
- I said, “I don’t want to see Judith, particularly.”
- I powdered my face and straightened my hat and put on my gloves.
- I wanted to go home. Peter made me feel old.
- I said, “And now Lord Thou lettest Thy servant depart in peace.”
- XVI
- I knew in that instant that I was to stay, and I was glad.
- I wrote him, later:
- I wrote him once more, to Wisconsin.
- I recovered from that mood of aching-to-be-a-wife.
- I said: “How do you do. Won’t you sit down?”
- I said, “As you wish.”
- I said, “Perhaps not.”
- I said, “Yes, quite.”
- I said, “Are you glad that you and Noel are having a baby?”
- I said: “I think it’s very nice for you.”
- I managed to say: “I understand how you must feel about it.”
- I said: “I had a child once, I remember. It died.”
- I thought: “How little she knows Noel, nowadays.”
- I said, “Beatrice.”
- I laughed.
- I went home, and dressed, and dined with Noel.
- I began: “You can go to Asia, after all.”
- I hurried home, to dine with Noel.
- I wrote him, to Lakehurst:
- I believed that, too, for five or ten minutes.
- I went upstairs to change my dress.
- I said: “How much time is there?”
- XVII
- I went back to New York, feeling that I had been away a long time.
- I did mean it.
- THE END
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