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"
I
am
feeling
very
old
to-day
,
Amory
,
"
she
would
sigh
,
her
face
a
rare
cameo
of
pathos
,
her
voice
exquisitely
modulated
,
her
hands
as
facile
as
Bernhardt
's
.
"
My
nerves
are
on
edge
--
on
edge
.
We
must
leave
this
terrifying
place
to-morrow
and
go
searching
for
sunshine
.
"
Amory
's
penetrating
green
eyes
would
look
out
through
tangled
hair
at
his
mother
.
Even
at
this
age
he
had
no
illusions
about
her
.
"
Amory
.
"
"
Oh
,
yes
.
"
"
I
want
you
to
take
a
red-hot
bath
as
hot
as
you
can
bear
it
,
and
just
relax
your
nerves
.
You
can
read
in
the
tub
if
you
wish
.
"
She
fed
him
sections
of
the
"
Fetes
Galantes
"
before
he
was
ten
;
at
eleven
he
could
talk
glibly
,
if
rather
reminiscently
,
of
Brahms
and
Mozart
and
Beethoven
.
One
afternoon
,
when
left
alone
in
the
hotel
at
Hot
Springs
,
he
sampled
his
mother
's
apricot
cordial
,
and
as
the
taste
pleased
him
,
he
became
quite
tipsy
.
This
was
fun
for
a
while
,
but
he
essayed
a
cigarette
in
his
exaltation
,
and
succumbed
to
a
vulgar
,
plebeian
reaction
.
Though
this
incident
horrified
Beatrice
,
it
also
secretly
amused
her
and
became
part
of
what
in
a
later
generation
would
have
been
termed
her
"
line
.
"
"
This
son
of
mine
,
"
he
heard
her
tell
a
room
full
of
awestruck
,
admiring
women
one
day
,
"
is
entirely
sophisticated
and
quite
charming
--
but
delicate
--
we
're
all
delicate
;
here
,
you
know
.
"
Her
hand
was
radiantly
outlined
against
her
beautiful
bosom
;
then
sinking
her
voice
to
a
whisper
,
she
told
them
of
the
apricot
cordial
.
They
rejoiced
,
for
she
was
a
brave
raconteuse
,
but
many
were
the
keys
turned
in
sideboard
locks
that
night
against
the
possible
defection
of
little
Bobby
or
Barbara
...
These
domestic
pilgrimages
were
invariably
in
state
;
two
maids
,
the
private
car
,
or
Mr.
Blaine
when
available
,
and
very
often
a
physician
.
When
Amory
had
the
whooping-cough
four
disgusted
specialists
glared
at
each
other
hunched
around
his
bed
;
when
he
took
scarlet
fever
the
number
of
attendants
,
including
physicians
and
nurses
,
totalled
fourteen
.
However
,
blood
being
thicker
than
broth
,
he
was
pulled
through
.
The
Blaines
were
attached
to
no
city
.
They
were
the
Blaines
of
Lake
Geneva
;
they
had
quite
enough
relatives
to
serve
in
place
of
friends
,
and
an
enviable
standing
from
Pasadena
to
Cape
Cod
.
