Finally I tried todraw a breath at the wrong time, swallowed more water, and panickedcompletely. Then I was kissing her, verygently but very thoroughly--anything worth doing is worth doingright--and she was kissing me back in exactly the same spirit, her mouthcurious but not afraid. They walked along Canal Street that wascrowded with colored people, Chinamen, pretty girls in brightcolored dresses, racetrack hangerson, tal elderly men in palmbeach suits. It should look ugly andawkward, but somehow it does not.
I waded out, started up the railroad ties, then stopped and went back toThe Street. The sheets were rumpled, the bottom one mostlypulled free. Gorry, no, 't'wouldn't beproper, deah. She didn't come out of her room.
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