Garden Of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

Author:Ernest Hemingway
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

They swam at the cove where they had gone the first day. David had planned to send the two girls to swim and then to take the old Isotta down to Cannes to have the brakes fixed and the ignition overhauled. But Catherine had asked him to please swim with them and to do the car the next day and she seemed

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so happy and sound and cheerful again after her nap and Marita had said very seriously, "Will you please come?" So he had driven them to the turnout for the cove and shown them both on the way how dangerously the brakes were working.

"You'd kill yourself with this car," he told Marita. "It's a crime to drive it the way it is."

"Had I ought to get a new one?" she asked.

"Christ no. Just let me fix the brakes to start with."

"We need a larger car with room for all of us," Catherine said. "This is a fine car," David said. "It just needs a hell of a lot of work done on it. But it's too much car for you."

"You see if they can fix it properly," the girl said. "If they can't we'll get the type of car you want."

Then they were tanning on the beach and David said lazily, "Come in and swim.

"Pour some water on my head," Catherine said. "I brought a sand bucket in the rucksack."

"Oh that feels wonderful," she said. "Could I have one more? Pour it on my face too."

She lay on the hard beach on her white robe in the sun and David and the girl swam out to sea and around the rocks at the mouth of the cove. The girl was swimming ahead and David overhauled her. He reached out and grabbed a foot and then held her close in his arms and kissed her as they treaded water. She felt slippery and strange in the water and they seemed the same height as they treaded water with their bodies close together and kissed. Then her head went under and he leaned back and she came up laughing and shaking her head that was sleek as a seal, and she brought her lips against his again and they kissed until they both went under. They lay side by side and floated and touched and then kissed hard and happily and went under again.

"I don't worry about anything now," she said, when they came up again. "You mustn't either."

"I won't," he said and they swam in.

"You better go in, Devil," he said to Catherine. "Your head will get too hot."

"All right. Let's go in," she said. "Let Heiress darken now. Let me put some oil on her."

"Not too much," the girl said. "May I have a pail of water on my head too?"

"Your head's as wet as it can get," Catherine said.

"I just wanted to feel it," the girl said.

"Wade out, David, and get a good cold one," Catherine said. And after he had poured the clear cool sea water on Marita's head they left her lying with her face on her arms and swam out to sea.

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