Murder in Any Degree
Excerpt: ... with a smile that no other thought has been in her heart all this while. That's it. If I wait she will make the move, she will make the move each time-and that will be much better." He waited three days, but she made no allusion. He waited another,... Viac o knihe
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Excerpt: ... with a smile that no other thought has been in her heart all this while. That's it. If I wait she will make the move, she will make the move each time-and that will be much better." He waited three days, but she made no allusion. He waited another, and then he said lightly: "You see, I am reforming." "How so?" "Why, I don't ask foolish questions any more." "That's so." "Still-" "Well?" she said, looking up. "Still, you might have guessed what I wanted," he answered, a little hurt. She rose quickly and came lightly to him, putting her hand on his shoulder. "Is that what you wish?" she said. "Yes." She repeated slowly her protestations and when she had ended, said, "Take me in your arms-hurt me." "Now she will understand," he thought; "the next time she will not wait." But each time, though he martyrized his soul in patience, he was forced to bring up the question that would not let him rest. He could not understand why she did not save him this useless agony. Sometimes when he wanted to find an excuse he said to himself it was because she felt humiliated that he should still doubt. At other times, he stumbled on explanations that terrified him. Then he remembered with bitterness the promise that he had exacted from her, a promise that, instead of bringing him peace, had left only an endless torment, and forgetting all his protestations he would cry to himself, in a cold perspiration: "Ah, if she is really lying, how can I ever be sure?" III In the eighth year, Madeleine Conti retired from the stage and announced her marriage. After five years of complete happiness she was taken suddenly ill, as the result of exposure to a drenching storm. One afternoon, as he waited by her bedside, talking in broken tones of all that they had been to each other, he said to her in a voice that he tried nervously to...
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- ISBN: 9781153643221