After the soup, he bumbled, Well, I guess Ive given
you most ofthe news. Twice a week letters from Fran had drawn him toward her and
towardEurope. So I got two single rooms instead of a double. Lets skip right out and
catch us a good old sidewalk cafe andwatch the world go by again!
So here I am and while, as I say, Im not crazy
about the place,Arnold and I and his friends, a Mr. So now the house is litteredwith
fauns and Bacchuses, if thats the word.
You wouldnt dare to talk to me as youvebeen
talking, if he were here. He was as dead as though he wereentombed.
Heres something that Fran would take an interest
in! He was as innocent as I was, and he was good enough to see me offon the train at
Vevey.
They were so imitative and so standardized that it
waseasy to laugh at them. You do it so well,when you forget your Stern Man of
Granite role and let yourself besweet. After all,I thought, Im silly about NOT
coming with him.
Oh, I suppose well have to go on cribbingfrom
Europe and Colonial America. Butweeks went by before he admitted, rather angrily,
that business didnot need him .
Her next three letters were short, devoted to
scenery and troubles. So now the house is litteredwith fauns and Bacchuses, if thats
the word. The mountains are like thepillars of heaven.
I feel as though I wrote so much about
Mr.
And furthermore, did Sam happen to know what
chickens costper pound at the present moment?
Lets skip right out and catch us a good old
sidewalk cafe andwatch the world go by again!
Then, for a week or two, he became very busy
peering into the SansSouci Gardens development. Come back soon and in early autumn
welljaunt off together. But even if he were articulate enough to bring home this
booty toTub and Dr. He told the manager that it was terrible. And he felt that Tub
was as critical of him.