The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton by Russell H. Greenan

Author:Russell H. Greenan [Greenan, Russell H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, General
ISBN: 9780553272802
Google: C4i5PAAACAAJ
Amazon: B01A5LSAXC
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1988-03-01T03:16:51.420000+00:00

9

Pique

During this entire time, Eulalia behaved badly. She was forever cross, forever critical. Her remarks about the lady archaeologist were downright scurrilous; I wouldn’t care to repeat them. Nor did she spare me in her diatribes, either. To hear her, you would have thought that I was Eulalia’s enemy instead of her closest friend.

That she had some slight cause for resentment I must admit. Evicting her from the library was not a nice thing to do. I had given her room to another woman, she said, so I was a faithless traitor. Well, I had – but what choice did I have? I certainly couldn’t have left both of them in there, could I? She complained, too, that I didn’t chat with her any more. That was also true, but the reason for my lack of cordiality was her disagreeable, abusive tirades.

I tried to placate Eulalia. She was implacable. Never would I have thought that such a change could come over her. Even the picture on her body – the sylvan scene underwent a subtle transformation; the lines became stark, the colors slightly garish, the expressions of the girl and boy more…more mundane, almost vulgar.

How my dear friend shouted at me! And what murky vices she accused me of! It was a miracle that Madge didn’t hear her down the hall.

The situation was becoming impossible. I felt guilty, I suppose, because I did have designs (a quaint word, that!) on the Clerisy woman. Still, it wasn’t something to be ashamed of, was it? My impulses were perfectly natural. After all, Madge and I were one kind of being, and Eulalia another. However, my old comrade couldn’t see it that way. Her mind was closed to argument. Indeed, she couldn’t have displayed more jealousy had she been a real woman – that is, a woman of flesh and blood.

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