Torsade Literary Space All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-seven) iv. Daughters Her sister let the shirtwaist fall, one of the spaniels too interested… In snuffling deep, as a dog near blind with age will, the scent […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-six) “Ma’am.” She wasn’t sure, the rhododendron masking them from one another, that Lawrence could be speaking to her. A moment passed, while neither Élucide nor Mrs. Koker answered. “Ma’am,” he said […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-five) The start of a speech that would have done. They were hurting not Élucide Gremot, but Bertrand Sartain, a man who would never in return hurt them, or any soul in […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-four) The hand that struck Richard was his mother’s. Verbena, swallowing cries, had been rising from the cot and lowering herself. She stood now. “I don’t have no filth in my house! […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-three) The cabin had one room altogether, a cot mattressed by the full store of quilts, a barrel stove, home-crafted, in a corner; and the braided rug and patriarchal armchair from the […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirteen)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part thirteen) The porter led Lom to the terrace’s threshold, preceding a new-arrived visitor for whom Lom rightfully served as vanguard, Cime. Sente did not rise. “Can I fairly suppose, Sente, that the law touches you at last?” Mine was the eye […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-two) Ma’am, was what he called Verbena, and off, hollering this, Samuel went up the steep of the hill, on their own side. “So we’re not crossing.” “No use now. I’d of […]
The Mirrors (conclusion)
The Mirrors (part fifty-four) xx. She was in a basement room, of welled windows along Centre Street, a lunchtime parade of legs, then quiet and pecking pigeons. Like the research library this was, the room had long, wide tables stacked with reference books; and filing […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-one) “But they’ve got a little house…on one of these ridgetops…” “Lil cabin.” “And Lawrence pays his visits…” “Don’t think he does, much. Sends that boy of Mary Paton’s.” Mary Paton, who […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy) Verbena—Élucide perked up a little, thinking of it—was the only one to need persuading. Old Richard didn’t let his wife go places alone. As a favor, she would say. Please, truly, […]