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It was shocking to hear him speak of her with such intimacy.

Pluto and Persephone. I looked at his back, prim as a parson's, tried to imagine the two of them together. His big white hands with the square nails.

Henry said, unexpectedly: 'How is Charles? '

'All right, ' I said, after an awkward pause.

'He'll be coming home soon, I suppose. '

A dirty tarpaulin flapped loudly on the roof. He kept working.

His dark trousers, with the suspenders crossed over his white shirted back, gave him a vaguely Amish appearance.

'Henry, ' I said.

He didn't look up.

'Henry, it's none of my business, but I hope for God's sake you know what you're doing, ' I said. I paused, expecting some response, but there was none. 'You haven't seen Charles, but I have, and I don't think you realize the shape he's in. Ask Francis, if you don't believe me. Even Julian's noticed. I mean, I've tried to tell you, but I just don't think you understand. He's out of his mind, and Camilla has no idea, and I don't know what we'll do when he gets home. I'm not even sure he'll be able to stay by himself. I mean '

'I'm sorry, ' interrupted Henry, 'but would you mind handing me those shears? '

There was a long silence. Finally, he reached over and got them himself. 'All right, ' he said pleasantly. 'Never mind. ' Very conscientiously, he parted the canes and clipped one in the middle, holding the shears at a careful slant, taking care not to injure a larger cane adjacent to it.

'What the hell is wrong with you? ' I had a hard time keeping my voice down. There were windows open in the upstairs apartment that faced the back; I heard people talking, listening to the radio, moving around. 'Why do you have to make things so hard for everybody? ' He didn't turn around. I grabbed the shears from his hand and threw them, with a clatter, on the bricks. 'Answer me, ' I said.

We looked at each other for a long moment. Behind his glasses, his eyes were steady and very blue.

Finally, he said, quietly: 'Tell me. '

The intensity of his gaze frightened me. 'What? '

'You don't feel a great deal of emotion for other people, do you? '

I was taken aback. 'What are you talking about? ' I said. 'Of course I do. '

'Do you? ' He raised an eyebrow. 'I don't think so. It doesn't matter, ' he said, after a long, tense pause. 'I don't, either. '

'What are you trying to get at? '

He shrugged. 'Nothing, ' he said. 'Except that my life, for the most part, has been very stale and colorless. Dead, I mean. The world has always been an empty place to me. I was incapable of enjoying even the simplest things. I felt dead in everything I did. '

He brushed the dirt from his hands. 'But then it changed, ' he said. 'The night I killed that man. '

I was jarred – a little spooked, as well – at so blatant a reference to something referred to, by mutual agreement, almost exclusively with codes, catchwords, a hundred different euphemisms.

'It was the most important night of my life, ' he said calmly. 'It enabled me to do what I've always wanted most. '

'Which is? '

'To live without thinking. '

Bees buzzed loudly in the honeysuckle. He went back to his rosebush, thinning the smaller branches at the top.

'Before, I was paralyzed, though I didn't really know it, ' he said. 'It was because I thought too much, lived too much in the mind. It was hard to make decisions. I felt immobilized. '

'And now? '

'Now, ' he said, 'now, I know that I can do anything that I want. ' He glanced up. 'And, unless I'm very wrong, you've experienced something similar yourself 'I don't know what you're talking about. '

'Oh, but I think you do. That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility. '

He was talking about the ravine. And, to my horror, 1 realized that in a way he was right. As ghastly as it had been, there was no denying that Bunny's murder had thrown all subsequent events into a kind of glaring Technicolor. And, though this new lucidity of vision was frequently nerve-wracking, there was no denying that it was not an altogether unpleasant sensation.

'I don't understand what this has to do with anything, ' I said, to his back.

'I'm not sure that I do, either, ' he said, assessing the balance of his rosebush, then removing, very carefully, another cane in the center. 'Except that there's not much which matters a great deal. The last six months have made that plain. And lately it has seemed important to find a thing or two which do. That's all. '

As he said this, he trailed away. 'There, ' he said at last. 'Does that look all right? Or do I need to open it up more in the middle? '

'Henry, ' I said. 'Listen to me. '

'I don't want to take off too much, ' he said vaguely. 'I should have done this a month ago. The canes bleed if they're pruned this late, but better late than never, as they say. '

'Henry. Please. ' I was on the verge of tears. 'What's the matter with you? Have you lost your mind? Don't you understand what's going on? '

He stood up, dusted his hands on his trousers. 'I have to go in the house now, ' he said.

I watched him hang the shears on a peg, then walk away. At the last, I thought he was going to turn and say something, goodbye, anything. But he didn't. He went inside. The door shut behind him.

I found Francis's apartment darkened, razor slits of light showing through the closed Venetian blinds. He was asleep. The place smelled sour, and ashy. Cigarette butts floated in a gin glass.

There was a black, bubbled scorch in the varnish of the night table beside his bed.

I pulled the blinds to let some sun in. He rubbed his eyes, J| called me a strange name. Then he recognized me. 'Oh, ' he said, his face screwed up, albino-pale. 'You. What are you doing here? '

I reminded him that we had agreed to visit Charles.

'What day is it? '

'Friday, ' 'Friday. ' He slumped back down in the bed. 'I hate Fridays.

Wednesdays, too. Bad luck. Sorrowful Mystery on the Rosary. '

He lay in bed, staring at the ceiling. Then he said: 'Do you get the sense something really awful is about to happen? '

I was alarmed. 'No, ' I said, defensively, though this was far from true. 'What do you think's going to happen? '

'I don't know, ' he said without moving. 'Maybe I'm wrong. '

'You should open a window, ' I said. 'It smells in here, ' 'I don't care. I can't smell. I've got a sinus infection. ' Listlessly, with one hand, he groped for his cigarettes on the night table. 'Jesus, I'm depressed, ' he said. 'I can't handle seeing Charles right now, ' 'We've got to, ' 'What time is it? '

'About eleven, ' He was silent for a moment, then said: 'Look here. I've got an idea. Let's have some lunch. Then we'll do it. '

'We'll worry about it the whole time. '

'Let's ask Julian, then. I'll bet he'll come. '

'Why do you want to ask Julian? '

'I'm depressed. Always nice to see him, anyway. ' He rolled over on his stomach. 'Or maybe not. I don't know. '

Julian answered the door – just a crack, as he had the very first time I'd knocked – and opened it wide when he saw who it was.

Immediately Francis asked him if he wanted to come to lunch.

'Of course. I'd be delighted. ' He laughed. 'This has been an odd morning indeed. Most peculiar. I'll tell you about it on the way. '

Things which were odd, by Julian's definition, often turned out to be amusingly mundane. By his own choice, he had so little contact with the outside world that he frequently considered the commonplace to be bizarre: an automatic-teller machine, for instance, or some new peculiarity in the supermarket – cereal shaped like vampires, or unrefrigerated yogurt sold in pop-top cans. All of us enjoyed hearing about these little forays of his into the twentieth century, so Francis and I pressed him to tell us what now had happened.

'Well, the secretary from the Literature and Languages Division was just here, ' he said. 'She had a letter for me. They have in and out boxes, you know, in the literature office – one can leave things to be typed or pick up messages there, though I never do. Anyone with whom I have the slightest wish to talk knows to reach me here. This letter' – he indicated it, lying open on the table beside his reading glasses – 'which was meant for me, somehow wound up in the box of a Mr Morse, who apparently is on sabbatical. His son came round to pick up his mail this morning and found it had been put by mistake into his father's slot. '

'What kind of letter? ' said Francis, leaning closer. 'Who's it from? '

'Bunny, ' Julian said.

A bright knife of terror plunged through my heart. We stared at him, dumbstruck. Julian smiled at us, allowing a dramatic pause for our astonishment to blossom to the full.

'Well, of course, it's not really from Edmund, ' he said. 'It's a forgery, and not a very clever one. The thing is typewritten, and there's no signature or date. That doesn't seem quite legitimate, does it? '

Francis had found his voice. Typewritten? ' he said.

'Yes. '

'Bunny didn't own a typewriter. '

'Well, he was my student for nearly four years, and he never handed in anything typewritten to me. As far as I'm aware, he didn't know how to type-write at all. Or did he? ' he said, looking up shrewdly.

'No, ' said Francis, after an earnest, thoughtful pause, 'no, I think you're right'; and I echoed this, though I knew – and Francis knew, too – that as a matter of fact Bunny had known how to type. He didn't have a typewriter of his own – this was perfectly true; but he frequently borrowed Francis's, or used one of the sticky old manuals in the library. The fact was – though neither of us was about to point it out – that none of us, ever, gave typed things to Julian. There was a simple reason for this. It was impossible to write in Greek alphabet on an English typewriter; and though Henry actually had somewhere a little Greek alphabet portable, which he had purchased on holiday in Mykonos, he never used it because, as he explained to me, the keyboard was different from the English and it took him five minutes to type his own name.

'It's terribly sad that someone would want to play a trick like this, ' Julian said. 'I can't imagine who would do such a thing. '

'How long had it been in the mailbox? ' Francis said. 'Do you know? '

'Well, that's another thing, ' Julian said. 'It might have been put in at any time. The secretary said that Mr Morse's son hadn't been to check his father's box since March. Which means, of course, that it might have been slipped in yesterday. ' He indicated the envelope, on the table. 'You see. There's only my name, typewritten, on the front, no return address, no date, of course no postmark. Obviously it's the work of a crank. The thing is, though, I can't imagine why anyone would play such a cruel joke. I'd almost like to tell the Dean, though goodness knows I don't want to stir things up again after all that fuss. '

Now that the first, horrible shock was over, I was starting to breathe a bit easier. 'What sort of a letter is it? ' I asked him.

Julian shrugged. 'You can have a look at it, if you like. '

I picked it up. Francis looked at it over my shoulder. It was single-spaced, on five or six small sheets of paper, some of which looked not unlike some writing paper which Bunny used to have.

But though the sheets were roughly the same size, they didn't all match. I could tell, by the way the ribbon had struck a letter sometimes half-red and half-black, that it had been written on the typewriter in the all-night study room.

The letter itself was disjointed, incoherent, and – to my astonished eyes – unquestionably genuine. I skimmed it only briefly, and remember so little about it that I am unable to reproduce it here, but I do remember thinking that if Bunny wrote it, he was a lot closer to a breakdown than any of us had thought. It was filled with profanities of various sorts which it was difficult, even in the most desperate of circumstances, to imagine Bunny using in a letter to Julian. It was unsigned, but there were several clear references which made it plain that Bunny Corcoran, or someone purporting to be him, was the author. It was badly spelled, with a great many of Bunny's characteristic errors, which fortunately couldn't have meant much to Julian, as Bunny was such a poor writer that he usually had someone else go over his work before he handed it in. Even I might have had doubts about the 56i authorship, the thing was so garbled and paranoid, if not for the reference to the Battenkill murder: 'He' – (Henry, that is. or so the letter ran approximately at one point) – 'is a fucking Monster.

He has killed a man and he wants to kill Me, too. Everybody is in on it. The man they killed in October, in Battenkill county.

His name was Mc Ree. I think they beat him to death I am not sure. ' There were other accusations – some of them true (the twins' sexual practices), some not; all of which were so wild that they only served to discredit the whole. There was no mention of my name. The whole thing had a desperate, drunken tone that was not unfamiliar. Though this didn't occur to me until later, I now believe he must have gone to the all-night study room and written it on the same night that he came drunk to my room – either directly before or after, probably after – in which case it was a pure stroke of luck we didn't run into each other when I was on my way to the Science Building to telephone Henry. I remember only one other thing, which was its closing line, and the only thing I saw which struck a pang at me: 'Please Help me, this is why I wrote you, you are the only person that can. '

'Well, I don't know who wrote this, ' said Francis at last, his tone offhand and perfectly casual, 'but whoever they were, they certainly couldn't spell. '

Julian laughed. I knew he didn't have the slightest idea that the letter was real.

Francis took the letter and shuffled ruminatively through the pages. He stopped at the next-to-last sheet – which was of a slightly different color than the rest – and idly turned it over. 'It seems that -' he said, and then stopped.

'Seems that what? ' said Julian pleasantly.

There was a slight pause before Francis continued. 'Seems that whoever wrote this needed a new typewriter ribbon, ' he said; but that was not what he was thinking, or I was thinking, or what he had been about to say. That had been struck from his mind when, turning the irregular sheet over, the two of us saw, with horror, what was on the back of it. It was a sheet of hotel stationery, engraved, at the top, with the address and letterhead of the Excelsior: the hotel where Bunny and Henry had stayed in Rome.

Henry told us, later, head in hands, that Bunny had asked him to buy him another box of stationery the day before he died. It was expensive stuff, white cream laid, imported from England; the best they had at the store in town. 'If only I'd bought it for him, ' he said. 'He asked me half a dozen times. But I figured, there wasn't much point, you see…' The sheet from the Excelsior wasn't quite so heavy, or fine. Henry speculated – probably correctly – that Bunny had got to the bottom of the box, so he rooted around in his desk and found that piece, roughly the same size, and turned it over to use the back.

I tried not to look at it, but it kept obtruding at the corners of my vision. A palace, drawn in blue ink, with flowing script like the script on an Italian menu. Blue edges on the paper.

Unmistakable.

'To tell you the truth, ' said Julian, 'I didn't even finish reading it. Obviously the perpetrator of this is quite disturbed. One can't say, of course, but I think it must have been written by another student, don't you? '

'I can't imagine that a member of the faculty would write something like this, if that's what you mean, ' said Francis, turning the letterhead back over. We didn't look at each other. I knew exactly what he was thinking: how can we steal this page? how can we get it away?

To distract Julian's attention, I walked to the window. 'It's a beautiful day, isn't it? ' I said, my back to both of them. 'It's hard to believe there was snow on the ground hardly a month ago…'

I babbled on, hardly aware of what I was saying, and afraid to look around.

'Yes, ' said Julian politely, 'yes, it is lovely out, ' but his voice came not from where I was expecting it but farther away, near the bookcase. I turned and saw that he was putting on his coat.

From the look on Francis's face, I knew he hadn't succeeded. He was turned halfway, watching Julian from the corner of his eye; for a moment, when Julian turned his head to cough, it seemed like he was going to be able to get away with it but no sooner had he pulled the page out than Julian turned around, and he had no choice but to casually place it where it had been, as if the pages were out of order and he was simply rearranging them.

Julian smiled at us, by the door. 'Are you boys ready? ' he said.

'Certainly, ' said Francis, with more enthusiasm than I knew he felt. He laid the letter, folded, back on the table and the two of us followed him out, smiling and talking, though I could see the tension in the back of Francis's shoulders and I was biting the inside of my bottom lip with frustration.

It was a miserable lunch. I remember hardly anything about it except that it was a very bright day, and we sat at a table too close to the window, and the glare in my eyes only increased my confusion and discomfort. And all the time we talked about the letter, the letter, the letter. Might whoever sent it have a grudge against Julian? Or was someone angry at us? Francis was more composed than me, but he was downing the glasses of house wine one after another, and a light sweat had broken out on his forehead.

Julian thought the letter was a fake. That was obvious. But if he saw the letterhead, the game was up, because he knew as well as we did that Bunny and Henry had stayed at the Excelsior for a couple of weeks. Our best hope was that he would simply throw it away, without showing it to anyone else or examining it further. But Julian liked intrigue, and secrecy, and this was the sort of thing that could keep him speculating for days. ('No. Could it have been a faculty member? Do you think? ') I kept thinking about what he'd said earlier, about showing it to the Dean. We would have to get hold of it somehow. Break in his office, maybe.

But even assuming he left it there, in a place where we could find it, that meant waiting six or seven hours.

I drank a good deal during lunch, but by the time we were finished I was still so nervous that I had brandy with my dessert instead of coffee. Twice, Francis slipped away to telephone. I knew he was trying to get Henry, to ask him to go over to the office and nip the letter while we had Julian captive at the Brasserie; I knew also, from his tense smiles when he returned, that he wasn't having any luck. After the second time he came back, an idea occurred to me: if he could leave to telephone, why couldn't he just go out the back and get in his car and go get it himself? I would have slipped out and done it myself if I had only had the car keys. Too late – as Francis was paying the check – I realized what I should have said: that I'd left something in the car and needed the keys to go unlock the door and get it.

On the way back to school, in the charged silence, I realized that something we had always relied on was the ability to communicate whenever we wanted. Always, previously, in an emergency we could throw out something in Greek, under the guise of an aphorism or quotation. But now that was impossible.

Julian didn't invite us back up to his office. We watched him going up the walk, waved as he turned at the back door to the Lyceum. It was, by now, about one-thirty in the afternoon.

We sat motionless in the car for a moment after he disappeared.

Francis's chummy, goodbye smile had died on his face. Suddenly, and with a violence that frightened me, he leaned down and banged his forehead on the steering wheel. 'Shit! ' he yelled. 'Shit!

Shit! '

I grabbed his arm and shook it. 'Shut up, ' I said.

'Oh, shit, ' he wailed, rolling his head back, the heels of his hands pressed to his temples. 'Shit. This is it, Richard. '

'Shut up. '

'It's over. We've had it. We're going to jail. '

'Shut up, ' 1 said again. His panic, oddly, had sobered me.

'We've got to figure out what to do. '

'Look, ' said Francis. 'Let's just go. If we leave now we can be in Montreal by dark. Nobody will ever find us. '

'You're not making any sense. '

'We'll stay in Montreal a couple of days. Sell the car. Then take the bus to, I don't know, Saskatchewan or something. We'll go to the weirdest place we can find. '

'Francis, I wish you would calm down for a minute. I think we can handle this. '

'What are we going to do? '

'Well, first, I think, we've got to find Henry. '

'Henry? ' He looked at me in amazement. 'What makes you think he'll be any help? He's so whacked-out, he doesn't know which way -'

'Doesn't he have a key to Julian's office? '

He was quiet a moment. 'Yes, ' he said. 'Yes, I think he does.

Or he used to. '

'There you go, ' I said. 'We'll find Henry and drive him over here. He can make some excuse to get Julian out of the office.

Then one of us can slip up the back stairs with the key. '

It was a good plan. The only problem was, running Henry down wasn't so easy as we'd hoped. He wasn't at his apartment, and when we went by the Albemarle, his car wasn't there.

We drove back to campus to check the library, then back to the Albemarle. This time Francis and I got out of the car and walked around the grounds.

The Albemarle had been built in the nineteenth century, as a retreat for rich convalescents. It was shady and luxurious, with tall shutters and a big, cool porch – everyone from Rudyard Kipling to FDR had stayed there – but it wasn't much bigger than a big private house.

'You tried the desk clerk? ' 1 asked Francis.

'Don't even think about it. They're registered under a phony name, and I'm sure Henry gave the innkeeper some story, because when I tried to talk to her the other night she clammed up in a second. '

'Is there any way we can get in past the lobby? '

'I have no idea. My mother and Chris stayed here once. It isn't that big a place. There's only one set of stairs that I know of, and you have to walk past the desk to get to them. '

'What about downstairs? '

'The thing is, I think they're on an upper floor. Camilla said something about carrying bags upstairs. There might be fire stairs, but I wouldn't know how to go about finding them. '

We stepped up onto the porch. Through the screen door we could see a dark, cool lobby and, behind the desk, a man of about sixty, his half-moon glasses pulled low on his nose, reading a copy of the Bennington Banner.

'Is that the guy you talked to? ' I whispered.

'No. His wife. '

'Has he seen you before? '

'No. '

I pushed open the door and stuck my head in for a moment, then went inside. The innkeeper glanced from his paper and gave us a supercilious up-and-down look. He was one of those prissy retirees one sees frequently in New England, the sort who subscribe to antique magazines and carry those canvas tote bags they give as gift premiums on public TV.

I gave him my best smile. Behind the desk, I noticed, was a pegboard with room keys. They were arranged in tiers according to floor. There were three keys – 2-B, -C, and -E – missing on the second floor, and only one – 3-A – on the third.

He was looking at us frostily. 'How may I help you? ' he said.

'Excuse me, ' I said, 'but do you know if our parents have arrived yet from California? '

He was surprised. He opened a ledger. 'What's the name? '

'Rayburn. Mr and Mrs Cloke Rayburn.

'I don't see a reservation. '

'I'm not sure they made one. '

He looked at me over the tops of his glasses. 'Generally, we require a reservation, with deposit, at least forty-eight hours in advance, ' he said.

'They didn't think they'd need one this time of year. '

'Well, there's no guarantee that there'll be room for them when they arrive, ' he said curtly.

I would have liked to have pointed out that his inn was more than half-empty, and that I didn't see the guests exactly fighting to get in, but I smiled again and said, 'I guess they'll have to take their chances, then. Their plane got into Albany at noon. They should be here any minute. '

'Well, then. '

'Do you mind if we wait? '

Obviously, he did. But he couldn't say so. He nodded, his mouth pursed – thinking, no doubt, about the lecture on reservation policy he would deliver to my parents – and, with an ostentatious rattle, went back to his paper.

We sat down on a cramped Victorian sofa, as far from the desk as possible.

Francis was jittery and kept glancing around. 'I don't want to stay here, ' he whispered, his lips barely moving, close to my ear.

'I'm afraid the wife will come back. '

'This guy is from hell, isn't he? '

'She's worse. '

The innkeeper was, very pointedly, not looking in our direction.

In fact, his back was to us. I put my hand on Francis's arm.

I'll be right back, ' I whispered. 'Tell him I went looking for the men's room. '

The stairs were carpeted and I managed to get up them without making much noise. I hurried down the corridor until I f saw 2-C, and 2. -B next to it. The doors were blank and foreboding, but this was no time to hesitate. I knocked oil 2-C. No answer. I knocked again, louder this time. 'Camilla! ' I said.

At this, a small dog began to raise a racket, down the hall in 2-E. Nix that, I thought, and was about to knock on the third door, when suddenly it opened and there stood a middle-aged lady in a golfing skirt. 'Excuse me, ' she said. 'Are you looking for someone? '

It was funny, 1 thought, as I shot up the last flight of stairs, but I'd had a premonition they'd be on the top floor. In the corridor I passed a gaunt, sixtyish woman – print dress, harlequin glasses, sharp nasty face like a poodle – carrying a stack of folded towels.

'Wait! ' she yelped. 'Where are you going? '

But I was already past her, down the hall, banging at the door of 3-A. 'Camilla! ' I shouted. 'It's Richard! Let me in! '

And then, there she was, like a miracle: sunlight streaming behind her into the hall, barefoot and blinking with surprise.

'Hello, ' she said, 'hello! What are you doing here? ' And, behind my shoulder, the innkeeper's wife: 'What do you think you're doing here? Who are you? '

'It's all right, ' Camilla said.

I was out of breath. 'Let me in, ' I gasped.

She pulled the door shut. It was a beautiful room – oak wainscoting, fireplace, only one bed, I noticed, in the room beyond, bedclothes tangled at the foot… 'Is Henry here? ' I said.

'What's wrong? ' Bright circles of color burned high in her cheeks. 'It's Charles, isn't it? What's happened? '

Charles. I'd forgotten about him. I struggled to catch my breath.

'No, ' I said. 'I don't have time to explain. We've got to find Henry. Where is he? '

'Why' – she looked at the clock – 'I believe he's at Julian's office. '

'Julian's: 1'

'Yes. What's the matter? ' she said, seeing the astonishment on my face. 'He had an appointment, I think, at two. '

I hurried downstairs to get Francis before the innkeeper and his wife had a chance to compare notes.

'What should we do? ' said Francis on the drive back to school.

'Wait outside and watch for him? '

'I'm afraid we'll lose him. I think one of us better run up and get him. '

Francis lit a cigarette. The match flame wavered. 'Maybe it's okay, ' he said. 'Maybe Henry managed to get hold of it. '

'I don't know, ' I said. But I was thinking the same thing. If Henry saw the letterhead, I was pretty sure he'd try to take it, and I was pretty sure he'd be more efficient about it than Francis or me. Besides – it sounded petty but it was true – Henry was Julian's favorite. If he put his mind to it, he could coerce away the whole letter on some pretext of giving it to the police, having the typing analyzed, who knew what he might come up with?

Francis glanced at me sideways. 'If Julian found out about this, ' he said, 'what do you think he would do? '

'I don't know, ' I said, and I didn't. It was such an unthinkable prospect that the only responses I could imagine him having were melodramatic and improbable. Julian suffering a fatal heart attack. Julian weeping uncontrollably, a broken man.

'I can't believe he'd turn us in. '

'I don't know. '

'But he couldn't. He loves us. '

I didn't say anything. Regardless of what Julian felt for me, there was no denying that what I felt for him was love and trust of a very genuine sort. As my own parents had distanced themselves from me more and more – a retreat they had been in the process of effecting for many years – it was Julian who had grown to be the sole figure of paternal benevolence in my life, or, indeed, of benevolence of any sort. To me, he seemed my only protector in the world.

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