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?Get to a public phone in the street and call me back
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She put her hands lightly on Scarlett's shoulders and bent to kiss her
cheekScarlett closed her eyesThe faint scent of lemon verbena
surrounded her, floating gently from Eleanor Butler's silk gown and
silken hairIt was the fragrance that had always been part of Ellen
O'Hara, the scent for Scarlett of comfort, of safety, of love, of life
before the WarScarlett felt her eyes spilling uncontrollable tears"There, there,"
Rhett's mother said"It's all right, my dearWhatever it is, it's
all right nowYou've come home at lastI've been longing for you to
come She put her arms around her daughter-in-law and held her
closeleanor Butler was a Southern ladyHer slow, soft voice and indolent,
graceful movements disguised a formidable energy and efficiencyLadies were trained from birth to be decorative, to be sympathetic and
fascinated listeners, to be appealingly helpless and empty-headed and
admiringThey were also trained to manage the intricate and
demanding
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servants-while always making it seem that the house, the garden, the
kitchen, the servants ran themselves flawlessly while the lady of the
house concentrated on matching colors of silk for her delicate
embroideryWhen the deprivations of war reduced the staffs of thirty
or forty to one or two, the demands on women increased
exponentially,
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continue to welcome guests, shelter families, sparkle with clean
windows and shining brass, and have a well-groomed, imperturbable,
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accomplished mistress at leisure in the drawing roomSomehow the
ladies of the South did itEleanor soothed Scarlett with gentle words
and fragrant tea, flattered Pauline by asking her opinion of the desk
recently installed in the drawing room, diverted Eulalie with a plea to
taste the pound cake and judge if the extract of vanilla bean was
strong enoughShe also murmured to Manigo, her manservant, that
her
maid Celie would help him and Scarlett's maid transfer Scarlett's
things from her aunts' house to the big bedroom overlooking the
garden
where MrIn under ten minutes, everything had been
accomplished to move Scarlett without opposition, or injured feelings,
or interruption to the even rhythm of the tranquil life under Eleanor
Butler's roofScarlett felt like a girl again, safe from all harm,
sheltered by a mother's all-powerful lov
Instead I gathered her to me and pressed my
face...
Instead I gathered her to me and pressed my
face against her boneless body and began to cryI
was still crying when I fell asleep Someone was shaking meIf we're going to do this, we have to get
rolling
"I dunno - I'm not sure he's going to come
around That voice was Jack's"Edgar!" Wireman slapped first one side of my face,
then the otherBright light
struck my closed eyes, flooding my world with redI tried to get away from all these stimuli - there
were bad things waiting on the other side of my
eyelids - but Wireman wouldn't let me"Muchacho!
Wake up! It's ten past eleven!"
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That got throughI sat up and looked at himHe
was holding quilted chanel bag the bedside lamp in front of my face,
so close I could feel the heat from the bulbJack
was standing behind himThe realization that Ilse
was dead - my Illy - struck at my heart, but I
pushed it away"Eleven! Wireman, I told you two
hours! What if some of Elizabeth's relatives
decide to-"
"Easy, muchachoI called the funeral home and
told them to keep everyone off DumaI said that
all three of us had come down with German measlesI also called Dario and told him
about your daughterEverything with the pictures
is on hold, at least for nowI doubt if that's a
priority with you, but-"
"Of course it is I got to my feet and rubbed my
hand over omega automatic seamaster watch my face"Perse doesn't get to do any
more damage than she already has
"I'm sorry, Edgar," Jack said"So damn sorry for
your lossI know that doesn't carry much water,
but-"
"It does," I said, and maybe in time it wouldIf
I kept saying it
"Never mind em now - didn't you hear her?...
"Never mind em now - didn't you hear her? Miss
Eastlake is back!" He booked for the doorI
dropped his folder on the library table and
followed himI had made the connection - but only
because I'd spent the last few months cultivating
the art of seeingCultivating it strenuouslyHe'd gone the length of the
dogtrot and was halfway up the staircaseI was
limping as fast as I could and he was still
pulling awayHe waited for me, not very patiently"Who told him the debris field was there?"
"Eastlake? I assume he stumbled on it while
pursuing his diving hobby
"I don't think so - he hadn't been in that bathing
suit for a long timeDiving and discount tiffany's necklace snorkeling may
have been his hobby in the early twenties, but I
670
think that around 1925, eating dinner became his
chief diversionSo who told him?"
Annmarie came out of a door near the end of the
hallThere was a goofy, unbelieving grin on her
face that made her look half her forty years
"Is she-"
"She is," came Elizabeth's cracked but
unmistakable voice"Come in here, Wireman, and
let me see your face while I still know it
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I lingered in the hall with Annmarie, not sure
what to do, looking at the knickknacks and the big
old Frederic Remington at the far end - Indians on
poniesThen Wireman called for meHis voice was
impatient and rough black chanel handbags with tearsThe shades had all been drawnAir conditioning whispered through a vent
somewhere above usThere was a table next to her
bed with a lamp on itThe shade was green glassThe bed was the hospital kind, and cranked up so
she could almost sitThe lamp put her in a soft
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spotlight, with her hair loose on the shoulders of
a pink dressing gownWireman sat beside her,
holding her handsAbove her bed was the only
painting in the room, a fine print of Edward
Hopper's Eleven AM, an archetype of loneliness
waiting patiently at the window for some change,
any changeSomewhere a clock was tickingShe looked at me and smiledI saw three things in
her chloe white faceThey hit me one after the other like
stones, each one heavier than the lastThe first
was how much weight she'd lostThe second was
that she looked horribly tiredThe third was that
she hadn't long to live"No-" I began, but when she raised one hand (the
flesh hanging down in a snow-white bag above her
elbow), I stilled at onceBecause here was a
fourth thing to see, and it hit hardest of all -
not a stone but a boulderI was looking at myselfThis was what people had seen in the aftermath of
my accident, when I was trying to sweep together
the poor scattered bits of my memory - all that
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out in such ugly, naked fashionI thought of how
I had forgotten my doll's name, and I knew what
was coming next"I can do this," she said"I know you can," I said"You brought Wireman back from the hospital," she
said
"I was so afraid they'd keep himAnd I would be
alone
I didn't reply to this"Are you Edmund?" she asked timidly"Miss Eastlake, don't tax yourself," Wireman said
gently"This is-"
"Hush, Wireman," I said
"You paint," she said
"Have you painted the ship yet?"
A curious thing happened to my stomachIt didn't
sink so much as it seemed to disappear and leave a
void between my heart and the rest of my gutsMy
knees tried to black gucci bags buck
When I got
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When I got
back, the message light on my answering machine
was blinking"Call me," she said, and
hung upI did, but first - this feels like a confession,
and a cowardly one, at that - I went online,
surfed to that day's Minneapolis StarTribune, and
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clicked on OBITUARIESI scrolled through the
names quickly and made sure Thomas Riley wasn't
one of them, knowing it proved nothing
She broke out in the loose,
rattlebox cough of...
She broke out in the loose,
rattlebox cough of the lifelong smoker"One does
not like to speak of these things directlyor
even know how to speak of them directlybut
might I give you a word of advice, Edgar? As one
who only appreciates, to one who creates? Might I
be allowed that?"
I waitedThe machine was silentI thought
perhaps the tape had run its courseUnder my feet
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the shells murmured quietly, as if sharing secretsThen she
began again"If the people who run the Scoto or the Avenida
should offer you a chance to show your work, I
would advise you most strongly to say yesSo
others can enjoy it, of course, but mainly to get
as much of it off Duma as soon as you can She
took a deep, audible breath, sounding louis vuitton mahina like a woman
preparing to finish some arduous choreShe also
sounded completely and utterly sane, totally there
and in the moment"Do not let it accumulateThat
is my advice to you, well-meant and without anyany personal agenda? Yes, that's what I meanLetting artistic work accumulate here is like
letting too much electricity accumulate in a
batteryIf you do that, the battery may explode
I didn't know if that was actually true or not,
but I took her meaning"I can't tell you why that should be, but it is,"
she went onand I had a sudden intuition that
she was lying about that"And surely if you
believe in art for art's sake, the painting is the
important part, isn't it?" Her voice was almost
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wheedling now"Even if you men's gucci wallet don't need to sell
your paintings to buy your daily bread, sharing
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care about such things, don't they? The giving?"
How would I know what was important to artists? I
had only that day learned what sort of finish to
put on my pictures to preserve them when I was
done with themwhat had Nannuzzi and
Mary Ire called me? An American primitiveThen: "I think I'll stop nowJust please think about what I've
said if you mean to stay, EdwardAnd I look
forward to you reading to meThat will be a treatThank you
for listening to an old womanThen she
said, "The table is leaking
I waited twenty seconds, then thirtyI had just
about decided that she'd forgotten to hang up on
her end and was chanel jewelry reaching to push the STOP button
on the answering machine when she spoke againJust six words, and they made no more sense than
the thing about the leaking table, but still they
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brought gooseflesh out on my arms and turned the
hair on the nape of my neck into hackles"My father was a skin diver," Elizabeth Eastlake
saidEach word was clearly enunciatedThen came
the clear click of the phone being hung up on her
end"No more messages," the phone robot said"The
message tape is full
I stood staring down at the machine, thought of
erasing the tape, then decided to save it and play
it for WiremanI undressed, brushed my teeth, and
went to bedI lay in the dark, feeling the soft
throb of my head, while below me the gold gucci watches shells
whispered the last thing she'd said over and over:
My father was a skin diver8 - Family Portrait
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Things slowed down for awhileSometimes that
happensThe pot boils, and then, just before it
can boil over, some hand - God, fate, maybe plain
coincidence - lowers the heatI mentioned this
once to Wireman and he said life is like Friday on
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a soap operaIt gives you the illusion that
everything is going to wrap up, and then the same
old shit starts up on MondayI thought he'd go with me to see a doctor and we'd
find out what was wrong with himI thought he'd
tell me why he'd shot himself in the head and how
a man survives that sort of thingThe answer
seemed to be, "With seizures and a lot of trouble
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