Sorrow in Sunlight

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Author: Ronald Firbank ISBN: 1230000157597
Publisher: WDS Publishing Publication: August 4, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Ronald Firbank
ISBN: 1230000157597
Publisher: WDS Publishing
Publication: August 4, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

Looking gloriously bored, Miss Miami Mouth gaped up into the boughs of a

giant silk-cotton tree. In the lethargic noontide nothing stirred: all

was so still, indeed, that the sound of someone snoring was clearly

audible among the cane-fields far away.

 

"After dose yams an' pods an' de white falernum, I dats way sleepy too,"

she murmured, fixing heavy somnolent eyes upon the prospect that lay

before her.

 

Through the sun-tinged greenery shone the sea, like a floor of silver

glass strewn with white sails.

 

Somewhere out there, fishing, must be her boy, Bamboo!

 

And, inconsequently, her thoughts wandered from the numerous

shark-casualties of late to the mundane proclivities of her mother; for

to quit the little village of Mediavilla for the capital was that dame's

fixed obsession.

 

Leave Mediavilla, leave Bamboo! The young negress fetched a sigh.

 

In what, she reflected, way would the family gain by _entering society_,

and how did one enter it, at all? There would be a gathering, doubtless,

of the elect (probably armed), since the best society is exclusive, and

difficult to enter. And then? Did one burrow? Or charge? She had

sometimes heard it said that people "pushed"... and closing her eyes,

Miss Miami Mouth sought to picture her parents, assisted by her small

sister, Edna, and her brother, Charlie, forcing their way, perspiring,

but triumphant, into the highest social circles of the city of Cuna-Cuna.

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Looking gloriously bored, Miss Miami Mouth gaped up into the boughs of a

giant silk-cotton tree. In the lethargic noontide nothing stirred: all

was so still, indeed, that the sound of someone snoring was clearly

audible among the cane-fields far away.

 

"After dose yams an' pods an' de white falernum, I dats way sleepy too,"

she murmured, fixing heavy somnolent eyes upon the prospect that lay

before her.

 

Through the sun-tinged greenery shone the sea, like a floor of silver

glass strewn with white sails.

 

Somewhere out there, fishing, must be her boy, Bamboo!

 

And, inconsequently, her thoughts wandered from the numerous

shark-casualties of late to the mundane proclivities of her mother; for

to quit the little village of Mediavilla for the capital was that dame's

fixed obsession.

 

Leave Mediavilla, leave Bamboo! The young negress fetched a sigh.

 

In what, she reflected, way would the family gain by _entering society_,

and how did one enter it, at all? There would be a gathering, doubtless,

of the elect (probably armed), since the best society is exclusive, and

difficult to enter. And then? Did one burrow? Or charge? She had

sometimes heard it said that people "pushed"... and closing her eyes,

Miss Miami Mouth sought to picture her parents, assisted by her small

sister, Edna, and her brother, Charlie, forcing their way, perspiring,

but triumphant, into the highest social circles of the city of Cuna-Cuna.

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