Hotel de Dream by Edmund White

Author:Edmund White
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061851865
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2024-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

Dr. Skinner is heading toward me with smelling salts—I must look as if I’m about to faint. I do feel prodded at, like a dying mule the miners want to bear one more load of ore.

Ah! The smell of mothballs. I guess I did faint.

Now I’m wide awake. To what purpose?

Come now, Stephen, as my mother would cry, another little effort!

Dr. Skinner was saying, “Did you hear, Mr. Crane, that Sir Edward Reed has proposed to install metal tubes under the Channel? They’d be wide enough for the passage of a carriage in each direction. He claims the ocean floor here is very flat and is ideal for the laying of his tubes.”

Cora was now murmuring, “That could be very good for Annie—I’m afraid she’s being sick, Doctor, over the edge of the boat. Do you see now, Stevie? You’re not the only one who’s ill.”

Stevie refused to smile; he let his face freeze in what he thought of as his Toltec mask.

The ship was bucking like a steer. Good, Crane thought. Even Cora is looking green. She’ll be quiet now.

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