She opened this and
scrambled out—a thing she had not done for five long years of adolescence—
upon the leaded space above the built-out bath-room on the first floor. The
ruffled chemise-front under the wide lapels of her waistcoat and jacket no longer
quivered, and her pose, with the full cloth petticoat spreading about her, was
relaxed. "Of course, there is a criminal element, but the percentage is no larger than that
in America or Europe. If he succeeds there, I do not know how I can prove
myself. Now, he must have
folks somewhere. Yet she could not bring herself to hate the girl,
or even Gianfrancesco, the one who would have sent her
to her death more than once. He worked afternoons,
when everybody else went to sleep; he worked at night under a heat-giving light,
with insects buzzing and dropping about, with a blue haze of tobacco smoke that
tried to get out and could not.
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