tion?” deliberately walked out of the room. As I was going back to Liza, the thought occurred to me on the way: shouldn’t I run away just as I Menn Gonzalo Castro Fotballdrakter was in my dressing-gown, no matter where, and then let happen what would?
I sat down again. She looked at me uneasily. For some minutes we were Menn Edson Puch Fotballdrakter silent.
“I will kill him,” I shouted Menn Fotballdrakter suddenly, striking the table with my fist so that the ink spurted out of the inkstand.
“What are you saying!” she cried, starting.
“I will kill him! kill him!” I shrieked, suddenly striking the table in absolute frenzy, and at the same time fully understanding how Menn Marc Bartra Fotballdrakter stupid it was to be in such a frenzy. “You don’t know, Liza, what that torturer is to me. He is my torturer . . . . He has gone now to fetch some rusks; he . . . ”
And suddenly I burst into tears. It was an hysterical attack. How ashamed I felt in the midst of my sobs; but still I could not restrain Menn Jimmy Medranda Fotballdrakter them.
She was frightened.
“What is the matter? What is Menn Morgan Brian Fotballdrakter wrong?” she cried, fussing about me.
“Water, give me water, over there!” I muttered in a faint voice, though I was inwardly conscious that I could have got on very well without water and without muttering in a faint voice. But I was, what is called, PUTTING IT ON, to save appearances, though the attack was a genuine one.
She gave me water, looking at me in bewilderment. At that moment Apollon brought in the tea. It suddenly seemed to me that this commonplace, prosaic tea was horribly undignified and paltry after all that had happened, and I blushed crimson. Liza looked at Apollon with positive alarm. He went out without a glance at either of us.
“Liza, do you despise me?” I asked, looking at her fixedly, trembling with impatience to know what she was thinking.
She was confused, and did not know what to answer.
“Drink your tea,” I said to her angrily. I was angry with myself, but, Menn Laurent Ciman Fotballdrakter of course, it was she who would have to pay for it. A horrible spite against her suddenly surged up in my heart; I believe I could have |
