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r06-057-03.png | valley with a sea of vines and olives |
r06-057-04.png | and beaches of earth pricked to blood by |
r06-057-05.png | the hoe . Rising from the flecked sea are |
r06-057-06.png | islands tapering to shipwrecked castles and |
r06-057-07.png | towns , grey , rose-headed mariners clinging |
r06-057-08.png | like limpets to the rock . |
r06-062-00.png | There is a curd of morning smoke and |
r06-062-01.png | a muffled bell taps the sky . Here we |
r06-062-02.png | stopped , as in fine weather we always |
r06-062-03.png | stopped . Down below is the village of |
r06-062-04.png | Cagnes , but between are pockets of |
r06-062-05.png | heat and cold like the hands of |
r06-062-06.png | friends or strangers , and a flurry of |
r06-062-07.png | early smells , the dark bosoms of |
r06-062-08.png | beech and the thin pine fingers |
r06-062-09.png | kissed by the sun . |
r06-066-00.png | Then here was Nice , and the old holiday |
r06-066-01.png | sea , blue as a new school exercise |
r06-066-02.png | book . The same old Nice , creamy , |
r06-066-03.png | vulgar , out of time , bitter-sweet with |
r06-066-04.png | the ghosts of dead monarchs and brilliant |
r06-066-05.png | prostitutes , edging past grubby grandeur |
r06-066-06.png | to the old sleeping port . This , and |
r06-066-07.png | Paris , were my ruined pavilions , and I |
r06-066-08.png | could catch the taste of dead dreams on |
r06-066-09.png | my tongue like spray . |
r06-070-00.png | We parked the Lambretta opposite the |
r06-070-01.png | Negresco , and went to the beach to |
r06-070-02.png | have a swim . Amazing bedlam rocked |
r06-070-03.png | in our eyes . The sea boiled with waves , |
r06-070-04.png | they galloped to the walls and spumed |
r06-070-05.png | over the Promenade des Anglais . A huge |
r06-070-06.png | crowd had collected . There were firemen |
r06-070-07.png | and policemen and ambulances , and the |
r06-070-08.png | eyes of the spectators were hard with |
r06-070-09.png | disaster . |
r06-076-00.png | They all had that neat look of |
r06-076-01.png | Mediterranean people to whom nothing |
r06-076-02.png | could ever happen , the chosen sane , the |
r06-076-03.png | uncuckolded , unrobbed , sheltered from |
r06-076-04.png | disease and accident by doctors , God and |
r06-076-05.png | the municipality . Yet , at any time now , |
r06-076-06.png | the bell would ring for them - the gilded |
r06-076-07.png | love house , the mad grandmother or the |
r06-076-08.png | bloody child at the crossroads . |
r06-090-00.png | It was growing cold . We left the |
r06-090-01.png | crowd and drove back to Vence . |
r06-090-02.png | The cool evening perfumes stood |
r06-090-03.png | beckoning at the corners of the roads . |
r06-090-04.png | Mart is unable to smell ( her sense |
r06-090-05.png | organs were impaired years ago ) , and |
r06-090-06.png | I had to explain the low , sharp and |
r06-090-07.png | sweet signals in the air . When we |
r06-090-08.png | got back home we felt exhausted . |
r06-090-09.png | London sickness ( a sense of guilt , |
r06-090-10.png | mingled with the memory of sandwiches |
r06-097-00.png | We went straight to bed and slept until |
r06-097-01.png | the turtle-doves drummed up the |
r06-097-02.png | sun . The next morning , in the square |
r06-097-03.png | opposite Pierre's , I read about the Nice |
r06-097-04.png | beach catastrophe in the Patriote . |
r06-097-05.png | Mart had been right , the body had been |
r06-097-06.png | a woman's . It belonged to a Madame |
r06-097-07.png | N. Enquiries had been made in the |
r06-097-08.png | neighbourhood , and it transpired that |
r06-097-09.png | Madame N's husband had made an |
r06-097-10.png | arrangement with the dead lady's sister |
r06-103-00.png | The sister , able to swim , had returned |
r06-103-01.png | to the shore , but instead of returning |
r06-103-02.png | to her brother-in-law ( with whom |
r06-103-03.png | she had an illicit relationship ) , she |
r06-103-04.png | went to her fiance*?2's house and |
r06-103-05.png | confessed everything . Her fiance*?2 |
r06-103-06.png | reported her to the police , and then jumped |
r06-103-07.png | off a cliff near Monte Carlo . |
r06-106-00.png | The day I promised to take Catherine |
r06-106-01.png | down to visit my young friend Philip |
r06-106-02.png | at his school in the country , we were |
r06-106-03.png | to leave at eleven , but she arrived |
r06-106-04.png | at nine . Her blue dress was new , |
r06-106-05.png | and so were her fashionable shoes . Her |
r06-106-06.png | hair had just been done . She looked |
r06-106-07.png | more than ever like a pink and gold |
r06-106-08.png | Renoir girl who expects everything from |
r06-106-09.png | life . |
r06-111-00.png | Catherine lives in a white house |
r06-111-01.png | overlooking the sweeping brown tides |
r06-111-02.png | of the river . She helped me clean up my |
r06-111-03.png | flat with a devotion which said that |
r06-111-04.png | she felt small flats were altogether more |
r06-111-05.png | romantic than large houses . We drank |
r06-111-06.png | tea , and talked mainly about Philip , who , |
r06-111-07.png | being 15 , has pure stern tastes in every- |
r06-111-08.png | thing from food to music . |
r06-115-00.png | Catherine looked at the books lying |
r06-115-01.png | around his room , and asked if she |
r06-115-02.png | might borrow the stories of Isaac Babel |
r06-115-03.png | to read on the train . Catherine is 13 . |
r06-115-04.png | I suggested she might find them dif- |
r06-115-05.png | ficult , but she said , ' Philip reads them , |