Music From Spain

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The sight, the memory now, of the aloof and ravenous face opposite his, dark in the pearly window light, and the sorrowful mouth devouring the very best food until all had disappeared except for a pile of bones and a frill of paper—this filled him with a glow that began to increase while they smilingly nodded and rose.†

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His black eyes were amiably following a little fly now.†

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It gave him an appalling moment.†

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For them, as for young, unattached, dashing boys, or renegade old men far gone, the roulette wheel all evening in some smoke-filled but ascetic room ... how would it be?†

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Eugene looked askance at a flower seller: where had the seasons gone?†

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Didn't it matter which poor, avid life took the gaze and which gave it?†

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Besides, though the cafeteria was economical and healthy, just now it had begun to be infested by those wiry, but unlucky, old men forever reading racing forms as they drank coffee; one particularly, in a belligerent pea-green sweater with yellow bands, seemed to change the whole tone of the place simply by always occupying the table anybody else would want.†

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But the Spaniard, cocking his head at Emma's full-sailed manifestation, simply pointed to his own breadth and opened his eyes on Eugene with one warm, brimming question of his own.†

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It was this that was smelling so sweet ... Eugene seemed to hear the extending cadence of "The Stubborn Rocking Horse," a piece of his he always liked, and could play very well.†

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Eugene felt compelled to: he let go the Spaniard and ran hurrying to catch the hat and bring it back.†

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His eyes half closed upon the mountains of houses not wall-like, as houses were in other places, but swollen like beehives, and one hive succeeding another, mounting into tremendous steps of stairs—and alive inside, inwardly contriving.†

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He pumped the substantial arm, taking an extra moment to recover himself, not to appear quite this disconcerted, or so rejected; he had entirely surprised himself.†

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Elation ran all through his body, like the first runner that ever knew the way to it.†

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He was laughing at the Filipino; and all the time, out of the whole room, perhaps, only he knew how excruciating this small mishap probably was.†

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It exuded sweat.†

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The beeves were moving across, all right, and on the other side a tramp leaned on a cane to watch, leering like a dandy at each one of the carcasses as it went by; it could have been some haughty and spurning woman he kept catching like that.†

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The Spaniard, when Eugene looked to him, was making a hideous face over the lighting of another cigarette.†

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The lapse must have endured for a solid minute or two, and afterwards he could recollect it.†

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So they turned and their walk could still go on along shore, past the black pits of fires and the ubiquitous, ugly, naked sea onions, until they reached rocks; then it led up to the overlooking wall.†