Sea of Glass by Parry Dennis

Author:Parry, Dennis [Parry, Dennis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Modern Classics
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Published: 1955-01-02T03:00:00+00:00

‘What’s the matter, Father?’ said Deirdre with a more genuine-sounding concern than I should have expected. ‘Is it one of your attacks?’

There we are, I thought, if that doesn’t just round off the picture! I should have realized without the need for a demonstration that when Cedric could not sufficiently assert his will by force he would fall back on an appeal to pity. ‘Wicked child, do you want to kill your kind papa—who will not be with you for long anyhow?’

Despite his recent illness, this seemed a very reasonable diagnosis, and it was not my fault that it turned out to be a little too smart.

After a couple of minutes Cedric got up, still looking somewhat groggy. He muttered a brief apology and then left accompanied by Deirdre.

‘On the way home,’ said Varvara, ‘perhaps he will die.’

‘I don’t think so.’

‘When he lay in the chair I hoped the blood would start out of his nostrils.’

‘Really,’ I said, ‘it’s time you learnt to lay off this face-bashing attitude. It sounds perfectly ridiculous in England.’

‘You have murderers here also.’

‘The only person your uncle is likely to knock off is his wretched daughter. He’ll send her crazy, if he doesn’t look out.’

The fact that on impulse Varvara had defended her cousin did not mean that she trusted her.

‘They are in league,’ she said.

‘You wouldn’t think so if you’d heard what she was saying about him.’

‘That was to put you off your guard. The cubs scratch the tiger to sharpen their claws, but they are not quarrelling.’

‘Have it your own way,’ I said.

I was preoccupied with a discovery which I had just made. Life is very unjust, but a high proportion of bad men manage to pay themselves out in this world: they do it simply by breeding in their own likeness.

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