The Widow's Confession

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Genres: Fiction
I told her that he would often look away when I spoke, and I interpreted it as impatience. ‘Perhaps he dislikes Americans,’ she said. ‘Perhaps he disapproves of your frankness. And yet,’ she said, her blue eyes so steady, ‘he stands close to you. He looks at you. When you look at him, what do you see?’ I thought long on her words before replying, on his gaze, which had the heavy quality of the air when a storm is coming. ‘His eyes are unfathomable,’ I said, ‘like the depths of the sea.’ It frig...htens me sometimes, what I feel when I look into those eyes.
    Alba settled down happily in the deep grass at the side of the cornfield, surrounded by the swell of her white dress, holding her parasol up to protect her face from the harshness of the morning light. Behind her lay the view Delphine had looked upon on the day of their first excursion, the first stop of the carriage: the basin of the bay, the pier at its far point. The natural beauty of the landscape seemed unnatural in its intensity to Delphine, so beautiful, like the features of the young girl before her, it was almost painful to look upon.
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