The General's Mistress
“It was summer repertory, with a very small company and all that this entails: the sudden intense friendships and rivalries of people who live and work together day in and day out for a very short time, but would have little to say to one another otherwise. There were many things that seemed important at the time but weren’t later.I remember that I had words with one young man of the company over his appropriation of my cosmetic brushes that seemed likely to burst into deadly enmity, and that I ...made love with another whose last name I did not know for no other reason than as we sat about drinking on a day we had only a matinee, he offered massages to any who wanted them, proclaiming that he was famous for them. When his hands were on me, I wanted them there. Or at least, I could see no reason not to.There were some assignations that paid, of course. Gentlemen of the town who wanted to be taken for something, and to whom I had the cachet of novelty. If I did not amass a vast fortune in Marseilles, in three months I was no poorer.As the summer turned and the days shortened, the days were hotter than ever, and anyone who could desert Marseilles for cooler places did so.MoreLess
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