The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

Author:Evelyn Waugh [WAUGH, EVELYN]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9780316216487
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2012-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

“Did you write that?”

Dennis hesitated. “You like it?”

“Why, it’s beautiful. It’s just what I’ve thought so often and haven’t been able to express. ‘To make it rich to die’ and ‘To cease upon the midnight with no pain.’ That’s exactly what Whispering Glades exists for, isn’t it? I think it’s wonderful to be able to write like that. Did you write it after you came here first?”

“It was written long before.”

“Well, it couldn’t be more lovely if you’d written it in Whispering Glades—on the Lake Island itself. Was it something like that you were writing when I came along?”

“Not exactly.”

Across the water the carillon in the Belfry Beautiful musically announced the hour.

“That’s six o’clock. I have to go early today.”

“And I have a poem to finish.”

“Will you stay and do it here?”

“No. At home. I’ll come with you.”

“I’d love to see the poem when it’s done.”

“I’ll send it to you.”

“Aimée Thanatogenos is my name. I live quite close but send it here, to Whispering Glades. This is my true home.”

When they reached the ferry the waterman looked at Dennis with complicity. “So she turned up all right, bud,” he said.

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