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doc#148 | brought her into his antique store. </p><p> That | she | impressed me instantly was obvious; I was |
doc#148 | neck and quickly suffuse her cheeks. True, | she | was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related |
doc#148 | related to me only by marriage, but why | she | had married a man twice her age, and more |
doc#148 | treated her circumspectly and I felt that | she | knew it, for we both kept our distance. |
doc#148 | for we both kept our distance. </p><p> When | she | appeared at the store to help out for a |
doc#148 | notice it. And then I became aware that | she | , too, glanced at me surreptitiously. I |
doc#148 | felt that her eyes were undressing me as if | she | were a painter and I a nude model. I dismissed |
doc#148 | a high charge of electricity. </p><p> Why | she | married him I do not know. I myself was |
doc#148 | pace that comes over the elderly, while | she | herself had all the signs of one who appreciates |
doc#148 | joys of living. Perhaps, with my Uncle, | she | found a measure of economic security that |
doc#148 | found a measure of economic security that | she | needed; or maybe she liked men old enough |
doc#148 | economic security that she needed; or maybe | she | liked men old enough to be her father; |
doc#148 | store. I was waiting in front of it when | she | showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition |
doc#148 | me of my Uncle's indisposition. Even as | she | was telling me about it I became aware |
doc#148 | and subconsciously I realized that when | she | entered the store she did not switch on |
doc#148 | realized that when she entered the store | she | did not switch on the lights. The cavernous |
doc#148 | with antiques, echoed to her hard heels as | she | walked directly to the office in the rear |
doc#148 | kissed the still pink neck and suddenly | she | jumped up, and her two arms encircled me |
doc#148 | for business and switched on the lights | she | said: </p><p> "He will not always be indisposed |
doc#148 | will we work it out"? </p><p> "I don't know", | she | said. "You're the man. You figure it out |