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Greene allowed as how he'd count it an honor to chauffeur me, I'd so eased his mind; but he begged leave to seek out Anastasia first and apologize for having confused her with her flunkèd twin. As for Georgina --
"Bugger Georgina!" Stoker said impatiently.
Greene drew a pill from his jeans, swallowed it with dignity, and replied that he was happy he'd not sunk to such unnatural practices, nor for that matter succumbed in any other wise to the carnal blandishments of O.B.G.'s naughty daughter, since he knew it to be written somewhere in the Old or New Syllabus that whites and blacks belonged in different classes. Did we suppose he could look his Sally Ann straight in the eye, reconciliationwise, or salute the pennant at the next Junior Enochist cookout, if his conweren't clean as a hound's tooth? Sure, he'd raised his share of heck, as what fellow hadn't, but --
Stoker fired a bullet into the air (we were crossing now the twilit exercise-yard) and promised to put another between Greene's eyes should he not at once close his mouth and vanish. He then reminded me -- as Greene sprinted zigzag toward the main gate -- that he himself was neither blind like Gynander nor half-blind and half-witted like my former
Sunday, September 7, 2008
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