The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau

Author:Octave Mirbeau
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Erotica, Fiction
ISBN: 9781596540675
Publisher: Olympia Press
Published: 2004-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

Laughter in the foliage, little cries, the friskiness of a dog … Clara appeared, dressed half in Chinese fashion, half in European. A pale mauve silk blouse faintly spangled with golden flowers enveloped her in a thousand folds, outlining her slender body and rounded curves. She wore a large pale straw hat below which her face appeared like a pink flower in the pale shadow. And she was wearing yellow leather shoes on her little feet.

When she entered the pavilion, it was like an explosion of scents.

“You think I look weird, don’t you? Oh, such a sad man of Europe, who hasn’t laughed once since he’s been back. Aren’t I beautiful?”

I did not rise from the settee where I was reclining.

“Quickly! Quickly! Darling, we must do the grand tour. I’ll put my gloves on along the way. Let’s go, come on! No, no, not you!” she added, gently pushing away the dog which was yapping, leaping and wagging its tail.

She called a boy and requested him to follow with a meat basket and a pitchfork.

“Ah, it’s very amusing,” she explained. “A lovely basket woven by the best basket-maker in China … and the pitchfork … You’ll see, a sweet little pitchfork with teeth of platinum incrusted with gold and handle of green jade – green like the sky in the gleams of early morning, green like poor Annie’s eyes. Don’t let’s make this unpleasant undertaker’s face, darling … but come, come quickly!”

And we started to walk in the sun, that frightful sun which blackened the grass, withered the peonies in the garden and weighed on my skull like a heavy iron helmet.

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