Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace
“He was puffing, and every now and again he would stop to cough.
It was at these times, when alone with her that Antony would tell Valerie about his youth. He would tell her how he worked in a hotel in Toronto when he was sixteen, and how he swam the river with his brother Claude, or how a friend got killed in the hold of a ship in Millbank – the dry pulpwood on that far-off 1955 June day, which seemed only a second removed when he remembered it, falling an inch from his own skull. He would talk... to her about the road and the river, and how everything was growing bigger.
He stopped to find a Chiclet for her, covered her little hand with his big one, and they continued on their way.
When they got home, his daughter took her brownie uniform off and put it in the closet. Later, Antony went up to her room and, getting on his knees with her, said two and a half prayers – that is, two Hail Mary’s and a half of the Our Father.
Then, tucking the little girl in and collecting every doll in the room to put on her bed, plus the transistor radio so she could listen to her “Hour of Power”MoreLess
It was at these times, when alone with her that Antony would tell Valerie about his youth. He would tell her how he worked in a hotel in Toronto when he was sixteen, and how he swam the river with his brother Claude, or how a friend got killed in the hold of a ship in Millbank – the dry pulpwood on that far-off 1955 June day, which seemed only a second removed when he remembered it, falling an inch from his own skull. He would talk... to her about the road and the river, and how everything was growing bigger.
He stopped to find a Chiclet for her, covered her little hand with his big one, and they continued on their way.
When they got home, his daughter took her brownie uniform off and put it in the closet. Later, Antony went up to her room and, getting on his knees with her, said two and a half prayers – that is, two Hail Mary’s and a half of the Our Father.
Then, tucking the little girl in and collecting every doll in the room to put on her bed, plus the transistor radio so she could listen to her “Hour of Power”MoreLess
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