4/56 And yet, after all, they are sort of becoming to you. In fact, you're so good-looking you can wear anything. And how your mustache does grow, to be sure!" I saw father was getting up to leave the room, and I flung her hand away, saying quickly to him: "I'll get the glass of water, father." And so I beat him that time, and got out of the room, quite willing to live in the desert of Sahara, if by it I could get rid of such females. I retired from the world to a light-house in the first bloom of my youth. I did not want to be a monk--I could not be a man--and so I did what fate and my father laid out for me to do. |