Category: Short Stories
He had always been spoiled, by men, and especially by women. Even in the name they called him in Portuguese Old Harbor, down cape, there was a ring of irrepressible triumph--“Va Di! Va Di!”--as it were, “a devil of a fellow,” or “a gay bird.”
He had always been spoiled, by men, and especially by women. Even in the name they called him in Portuguese Old Harbor, down cape, there was a ring of irrepressible triumph--“Va...
2. Part 2He jumped up and shuffled around; rolled a cigarette, wetting it too much with his tongue so that it fell apart; threw it away. “She _l-l-loves_ me,” he came out, more racked by...
3. Part 3I’ll get that mustard-colered ---- [This is back a couple of days.] Never can hear the ---- coming, in them carpet slippers. Turned round and found him standing right to my back...
4. Part 4“No,” he mumbled. “This mystery is that a man who has been to sea all his life could sail around for three days with a man bundled up in his top and not know it. When I think of...