Saturday, December 5, 2009

Those faces-monstrous distorted bloated things! Obscenities beyond imagining! T'ang did not flinch at the nightmare visions. Soft and flabby surely for all.

The sea war broke out again with your country James much against his father's wishes sailed on a privateer fitted out here in the islands. This was later captured by one flying the American flag. We have heard nothing from him since- save a rumor that he was killed during a boarding action. Yet until his death my husband clung to the hope that James might still be alive. This I will admit I fostered since it.
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And looked on. At the end of half an hour Ethelbertha retired from the contest hot dirty and a trifle irritable. The fireplace retained the same cold cynical expression with which it had greeted our entrance. Then I tried. I honestly tried my best. I was eager and anxious to succeed. For one reason I wanted my breakfast. For another I wanted to be able to say that I had done this thing. It seemed to me that for any human being to light a fire laid as that fire was laid would be a feat to be proud of. To light a fire even under ordinary circumstances is not too easy a task: to do so handicapped by MacShaughnassy's rules would I felt be an achievement pleasant to look back upon. My idea had I succeeded would have been to go round the neighbourhood and brag about it. However I did not succeed. I lit various other things including the kitchen.
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