Paris Tales by Constantine Helen;

Author:Constantine, Helen;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 1998-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Antoine Parrot considered Antigone the prettier of the two, taller and slimmer. Dejanira had buck teeth like a rabbit. But she was the one he had got to know first and Antigone always received him rather distantly, as her sister’s friend. There was something rather severe about her, owing to the fact that she was the elder and, after all, the head of the family. Besides, Antoine, a naturally modest man, when faced with two girls, chose the one he thought was not so beautiful. Dejanira was very lively and didn’t take herself too seriously. She had large breasts, a well-rounded bottom, and laughed all the time with her rabbit teeth. Antoine was a head taller than her.

Sometimes it turned out that Antoine Parrot arrived at Issy-les-Moulineaux and the Place des Fêtes aware that his friends probably wouldn’t be home. But, even when he found the door closed, he did not much mind. In life it is important to go through the motions, even though you may not actually do the thing itself.

One evening, after eating at Suzanne’s, because she had brought back some food from a weekend at her parents’ house, he stayed on after the curfew. In relations between men and women there always exists an unspoken code, a series of tacit conventions; these are both more precise and more charged with meaning than the spoken word, for people often talk in order to avoid saying anything, whereas this code always has some significance. In the code of the time, if a girl did not send you away before the curfew it meant that you would end up in bed with her. Since the outcome was certain, Antoine did not make a move immediately. Suzanne sat in a leather armchair, looking up at him out of half-closed eyelids while he held forth about the poetry of the Resistance, Éluard, and Aragon. At about one o’clock in the morning he leaned over the arm of the chair and gave her a kiss.

‘I was wondering if you would dare,’ she said. ‘I’ve spent the whole evening trying to guess what time you would make up your mind.’ The first hurdle over, he became more adventurous and pretended he had to persuade Suzanne to let him come to bed with her. She seemed to find this completely unexpected and not at all an attractive proposition. Eventually she lent him a pair of floral pyjamas which he found hard to get into, but thought he wouldn’t be wearing for very long. She went to put some on as well. Once in bed, in the darkness, he discovered that her feet were like ice, and he offered to warm them up. Without more ado, she placed them on his, and the cold went right through him, momentarily quenching his desire. But you become accustomed to anything, and he started kissing and caressing her again. He unbuttoned her pyjama top and played with her breasts for a long time. But when he slid his

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