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Then she shuddered, and then she made the
awkward angular movement that I had seen before, as if, after the spasm, some
spot between the shoulders burnt or itched. Then again she looked the most
unhappy woman in the world, and I once more reproached her, though not with the
same conviction, for if there were a reason, and if I knew the reason, the
stigma was removed from life. ¡°Sisters-in-law,¡± I said ¡ª¡ª Her lips pursed as
if to spit venom at the word; pursed they remained. All she did was to take her
glove and rub hard at a spot on the window-pane. She rubbed as if she would rub
something out for ever ¡ª some stain, some indelible contamination. Indeed, the
spot remained for all her rubbing, and back she sank with the shudder and the
clutch of the arm I had come to expect. Something impelled me to take my glove
and rub my window. There, too, was a little speck on the glass. For all my
rubbing it remained. And then the spasm went through me I crooked my arm and
plucked at the middle of my back. My skin, too, felt like the damp chicken¡¯s
skin in the poulterer¡¯s shop-window; one spot between the shoulders itched and
irritated, felt clammy, felt raw. Could I reach it Surreptitiously I tried. She
saw me. A smile of infinite irony, infinite sorrow, flitted and faded. Air Max 90 2014 from her face. But she had
communicated, shared her secret, passed her poison she would speak no more.
Leaning back in my corner, shielding my eyes from her eyes, seeing only the
slopes and hollows, greys and purples, of the winter¡¯s landscape, I read her
message, deciphered her secret, reading it beneath her gaze. Hilda¡¯s the
sister-in-law. Hilda Hilda Hilda Marsh ¡ª Hilda the blooming, the full bosomed,
the matronly. Hilda stands at the door as the cab draws up, holding a coin.
¡°Poor Minnie, more of a grasshopper than ever ¡ª old cloak she had last year.
Well, well, with too children these days one can¡¯t do more. No, Minnie, I¡¯ve
got it; here you are, cabby ¡ª none of your ways with me. Come in, Minnie. Oh, I
could carry YOU, let alone your basket!¡± So they go into the dining-room.
¡°Aunt Minnie, children.¡± Slowly the knives and forks sink from the upright.
Down they get (Bob and Barbara), hold out hands stiffly; back again to their
chairs, staring between the resumed mouthfuls. [But this we¡¯ll skip; ornaments,
curtains, trefoil china plate, yellow oblongs of cheese, white squares of
biscuit ¡ª skip ¡ª oh, but wait! Half-way through luncheon one of those shivers;
Bob stares at her, spoon in mouth. ¡°Get on with your pudding, Bob;¡± but Hilda
disapproves. ¡°Why SHOULD she twitch¡±. Cheap
Air Max 2013 Skip, skip, till we reach the landing on the upper floor;
stairs brass-bound; linoleum worn; oh, yes! little bedroom looking out over the
roofs of Eastbourne ¡ª zigzagging roofs like the spines of caterpillars, this
way, that way, striped red and yellow, with blue-black slating]. Now, Minnie,
the door¡¯s shut; Hilda heavily descends to the basement; you unstrap the straps
of your basket, lay on the bed a meagre nightgown, stand side by side furred
felt slippers. The looking-glass ¡ª no, you avoid the looking-glass. Some
methodical disposition of hat-pins. Perhaps the shell box has something in it
You shake it; it¡¯s the pearl stud there was last year ¡ª that¡¯s all. And then
the sniff, the sigh, the sitting by the window. Three o¡¯clock on a December
afternoon; the rain drizzling; one light low in the skylight of a drapery
emporium; another high in a servant¡¯s bedroom ¡ª this one goes out. That gives
her nothing to look at. A moment¡¯s blankness ¡ª then, what are you thinking
(Let me peep across at her opposite; she¡¯s asleep or pretending it; so what
would she think about sitting at the window at three o¡¯clock in the afternoon
Health, money, bills, her God) Yes, sitting on the very edge of the chair
looking over the roofs of Eastbourne, Minnie Marsh prays to Gods. That¡¯s all
very well; and she may rub the pane too, as though to see God better;
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