Wife Or Death
“For the first time in his life he knew what the word “shudder” meant.
He shut his eyes, tight.
I’ve known this since Augie’s visit, he thought. I didn’t know I knew it, but I did … He realized now that a kind of portent had been creeping up on him, a sign of inevitability. Of death. Angel’s death.
He had stopped loving her long ago, if indeed he had ever loved her at all. In the beginning her body, maybe; no, her body surely. But nothing else. There had been nothing else to love. If anything, he had pitied her. Certainly he had never wished her any harm. At her worst she had been too much of a child, too guiltless in her lusts, to arouse hatred.
Then why had this hit him so hard? Was it her beauty—a beauty unrelated to what she did, to herself, to him, to his feelings about her? That was probably it, Denton told himself dully. It made him ill to think of that face, that body being mutilated and corrupted. Just to imagine what it must look like … “That was a pretty nasty way to break i...t to him, Ralph,”MoreLess
He shut his eyes, tight.
I’ve known this since Augie’s visit, he thought. I didn’t know I knew it, but I did … He realized now that a kind of portent had been creeping up on him, a sign of inevitability. Of death. Angel’s death.
He had stopped loving her long ago, if indeed he had ever loved her at all. In the beginning her body, maybe; no, her body surely. But nothing else. There had been nothing else to love. If anything, he had pitied her. Certainly he had never wished her any harm. At her worst she had been too much of a child, too guiltless in her lusts, to arouse hatred.
Then why had this hit him so hard? Was it her beauty—a beauty unrelated to what she did, to herself, to him, to his feelings about her? That was probably it, Denton told himself dully. It made him ill to think of that face, that body being mutilated and corrupted. Just to imagine what it must look like … “That was a pretty nasty way to break i...t to him, Ralph,”MoreLess
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