Look At the Harlequins!
“13 On the morning of April 23, 1930, the shrill peal of the hallway telephone caught me in the act of stepping into my bathwater.
Ivor! He had just arrived in Paris from New York for an important conference, would be busy all afternoon, was leaving tomorrow, would like to— Here intervened naked Iris, who delicately, unhurriedly, with a radiant smile, appropriated the monologizing receiver. A minute later (her brother with all his defects was a mercifully concise phoner), she, still beaming, embraced me, and we moved to her bedroom for our last “fairela-mourir” as she called it in her tender aberrant French.
Ivor was to fetch us at seven P.M. I had already put on my old dinner jacket; Iris stood sideways to the hallway mirror (the best and brightest in the whole flat) veering gently as she tried to catch a clear view of the back of her silky dark bob in the hand glass she held at head level.
“If you’re ready,” she said, “I’d like you to buy some olives. He’ll be coming here after dinne...r, and he likes them with his ‘postbrandy.’ ”MoreLess
Ivor! He had just arrived in Paris from New York for an important conference, would be busy all afternoon, was leaving tomorrow, would like to— Here intervened naked Iris, who delicately, unhurriedly, with a radiant smile, appropriated the monologizing receiver. A minute later (her brother with all his defects was a mercifully concise phoner), she, still beaming, embraced me, and we moved to her bedroom for our last “fairela-mourir” as she called it in her tender aberrant French.
Ivor was to fetch us at seven P.M. I had already put on my old dinner jacket; Iris stood sideways to the hallway mirror (the best and brightest in the whole flat) veering gently as she tried to catch a clear view of the back of her silky dark bob in the hand glass she held at head level.
“If you’re ready,” she said, “I’d like you to buy some olives. He’ll be coming here after dinne...r, and he likes them with his ‘postbrandy.’ ”MoreLess
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