Hes been conspicuouslydisplaying them for a long
time now.
Ido want a lot of silly things, and you give them
to me, but I wantyou more.
I said toa robin, when I woke this morning, I said,
Robin, Ill bet you twoworms that Mr.
It made them feel that they were already in
Europe.
Benjamin was very sorry when she spoke
thus.
He was a middleroad-to-leftwing Democrat and a
convincedEpiscopalian.
Suddenly there was an apartment housetwenty stories
high, and he exulted, This is it! You musthave learned enough from ole Cass by now
to be fairly good. Purdwinwas not a gentleman, Fanny mused, Aint he? Benjamin sits
and looks at the picture or at anewspaper all evening. I like a place where you can
know people. There was so fabulouslymuch to master that they felt they would never
master any of it.
He was a middleroad-to-leftwing Democrat and a
convincedEpiscopalian.
For my own honor, if there is such a thing, but
morefor HER honor and contentment. It made them feel that they were already in
Europe.
And I like a place where there are some people you
can know! She blamed Benjamin; she said that people could not endure hisvulgar
belching.
Well, we get a lot of people from Marlowe, too.
Then shefound an old bachelor who was amenable.
It would kill me to see that securesmiling of hers
turn diffident and scared and appealing.
Maybe there was a ticket agency, over on Sixth
Avenue and downthree blocks? Thats where the real NewYorkers go, say while theyre
opening up their apartments in thefall.
Say, uh, Roy, is the healthcommissioner going to
get after the sewers down by my mill? She flirtedwith the water like a sail boat.
They took, for the rest of the hot summer, a lakeside cottage onthe north shore of
Dead Squaw Lake. Benjamin sits and looks at the picture or at anewspaper all
evening. So Cleo went off in a huff and was found in the empty garage,growling. Cass
and Roy sat sourly out under the trees, on a sawbuck and awheelbarrow. What you want
for tonight is Slips andSlippers.
And I like a place where there are some people you
can know! When I first met you, you were sixty-one. But all such competition
vanished in the problems of comparativewealth.
The rooms were small and,with tiled floors and
imitation-antique beams, as oppressive ascells. Oh, lemme see, lemme see, lemme see,
good gracious sakes, let mesee that lovely thing!
And healso left me that block of stores and flats
down in the South End. And ofcourse, with wartime restrictions, it will be
impossible to buildone. Pal, could I please kick the next couplethat crowd me into
the gutter?
When Cleo did actually see the place, she was
difficult about it.