Blue Willow
“The struggle had become a habit over the four years since he’d taken over Colebrook China. Given any moment of relative peace without a calculator or a computer or a sheaf of notes in front of him, his thoughts wandered and his eyelids filled with sand. He wanted to excuse himself and step outside on the room’s balcony for a reviving minute in the frigid air, but the new year’s first snow was falling.Marketing reports, management analyses, inventory outlines, and interoffice memos swam lazily i...n his mind. Senator DeWitt’s oratorical bass voice droned pleasantly from the head of the table, as the senator held forth on the attributes of the recently inaugurated Ronald Reagan. Artemas focused on the heavily engraved sterling fork in his hand and willed it to slice a section from the salmon. A set of delicate, pale fingers appeared on the sleeve of his black dinner jacket. A soft, feminine voice whispered nearby, with lilting humor, “I’ll have someone bring you a cup of coffee.”Decorum and willpower overcame drowsiness.MoreLess
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