A Palace of Silver by John Sanford

Author:John Sanford
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448213269
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-12-18T00:00:00+00:00

“Johnny, you live as though life went on without a stop. Others live otherwise, but your way is as good as theirs, and it’s easier on the mind.”

“Sacco said this too about that happy day: Rossina, how nise she was look. I say the same of you that day on the beach: How nise you was look.”

“You were so good to me, Johnny.”

Spoken only in your head, it was a repetition of what she more than once had said to your face—and it was as hurtful in recall as it had always been in fact. She’d meant it as praise, of course, high praise, but you’d never failed to find it hard to bear. You were being lauded for your choice of ways, as if there’d been many to choose from, and after comparing the advantages (how—arithmetically?)—you’d chosen the most profitable. But in all truth, there’d been only the one way, and you remembered your effort to explain. She possessed a quality, you’d told her, that made it impossible not to be good to her. It wasn’t your doing at all, you said; she’d inspired the goodness, and the credit belonged to her, not you. And she’d laughed at the explanation!

She had very little notion of her worth. I’m no great shakes, Johnny, she’d say, and quite without guile, she believed it to be so. It was not so, but to the end of her life, she regarded herself as run of the mill, the rule, a useful citizen and no more. But whether she knew it or not, she was much more: she was the ideal citizen, the kind that no mill could have produced.

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