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“
They
ARE
trees
,
”
I
replied
with
severity
;
“
and
they
ARE
blue
.
They
’
ve
got
to
be
blue
,
’
cos
you
stole
my
gamboge
last
week
,
so
I
can
’
t
mix
up
any
green
.
”
“
DIDN
’
T
steal
your
gamboge
,
”
declared
Selina
,
haughtily
,
edging
away
,
however
,
in
the
direction
of
Harold
.
“
And
I
wouldn
’
t
tell
lies
,
either
,
if
I
was
you
,
about
a
dirty
little
bit
of
gamboge
.
”
I
preserved
a
discreet
silence
.
After
all
,
I
knew
SHE
knew
she
stole
my
gamboge
.
The
moment
Harold
became
conscious
of
Selina
’
s
stealthy
approach
,
he
dropped
his
pencil
and
flung
himself
flat
upon
the
table
,
protecting
thus
his
literary
efforts
from
chilling
criticism
by
the
interposed
thickness
of
his
person
.
From
somewhere
in
his
interior
proceeded
a
heart
rending
compound
of
squeal
and
whistle
,
as
of
escaping
steam
,
—
long
-
drawn
,
ear
piercing
,
unvarying
in
note
.
“
I
only
just
want
to
see
,
”
protested
Selina
,
struggling
to
uproot
his
small
body
from
the
scrawl
it
guarded
.
But
Harold
clung
limpet
-
like
to
the
table
edge
,
and
his
shrill
protest
continued
to
deafen
humanity
and
to
threaten
even
the
serenities
of
Olympus
.
The
time
seemed
come
for
a
demonstration
in
force
.
Personally
I
cared
little
what
soul
-
outpourings
of
Harold
were
pirated
by
Selina
—
she
was
pretty
sure
to
get
hold
of
them
sooner
or
later
—
and
indeed
I
rather
welcomed
the
diversion
as
favourable
to
the
undisturbed
pursuit
of
Art
.
But
the
clannishness
of
sex
has
its
unwritten
laws
.
Boys
,
as
such
,
are
sufficiently
put
upon
,
maltreated
,
trodden
under
,
as
it
is
.
Should
they
fail
to
hang
together
in
perilous
times
,
what
disasters
,
what
ignominies
,
may
not
be
looked
for
?
Possibly
even
an
extinction
of
the
tribe
.
I
dropped
my
paint
brush
and
sailed
shouting
into
the
fray
.
The
result
for
a
short
space
hung
dubious
.
There
is
a
period
of
life
when
the
difference
of
a
year
or
two
in
age
far
outweighs
the
minor
advantage
of
sex
.
Then
the
gathers
of
Selina
’
s
frock
came
away
with
a
sound
like
the
rattle
of
distant
musketry
;
and
this
calamity
it
was
,
rather
than
mere
brute
compulsion
,
that
quelled
her
indomitable
spirit
.
The
female
tongue
is
mightier
than
the
sword
,
as
I
soon
had
good
reason
to
know
,
when
Selina
,
her
riven
garment
held
out
at
length
,
avenged
her
discomfiture
with
the
Greek
-
fire
of
personalities
and
abuse
.
Every
black
incident
in
my
short
,
but
not
stainless
,
career
—
every
error
,
every
folly
,
every
penalty
ignobly
suffered
—
were
paraded
before
me
as
in
a
magic
-
lantern
show
.
The
information
,
however
,
was
not
particularly
new
to
me
,
and
the
effect
was
staled
by
previous
rehearsals
.
Besides
,
a
victory
remains
a
victory
,
whatever
the
moral
character
of
the
triumphant
general
.
Harold
chuckled
and
crowed
as
he
dropped
from
the
table
,
revealing
the
document
over
which
so
many
gathers
had
sighed
their
short
lives
out
.
“
YOU
can
read
it
if
you
like
,
”
he
said
to
me
gratefully
.
“
It
’
s
only
a
Death
-
letter
.
”
It
had
never
been
possible
to
say
what
Harold
’
s
particular
amusement
of
the
hour
might
turn
out
to
be
.
One
thing
only
was
certain
,
that
it
would
be
something
improbable
,
unguessable
,
not
to
be
foretold
.
Who
,
for
instance
,
in
search
of
relaxation
,
would
ever
dream
of
choosing
the
drawing
-
up
of
a
testamentary
disposition
of
property
?
Yet
this
was
the
form
taken
by
Harold
’
s
latest
craze
;
and
in
justice
this
much
had
to
be
said
for
him
,
that
in
the
christening
of
his
amusement
he
had
gone
right
to
the
heart
of
the
matter
.
The
words
“
will
”
and
“
testament
”
have
various
meanings
and
uses
;
but
about
the
signification
of
“
death
-
letter
”
there
can
be
no
manner
of
doubt
.
I
smoothed
out
the
crumpled
paper
and
read
.
In
actual
form
it
deviated
considerably
from
that
usually
adopted
by
family
solicitors
of
standing
,
the
only
resemblance
,
indeed
,
lying
in
the
absence
of
punctuation
.
