U.S.A. by John Dos Passos

Author:John Dos Passos [Passos, John Dos]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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saw," said Edwin teasingly. "You're a Christian, aren'

you, well, have you ever thought that Christ was a Jew?"

"Well, I'm fallin' down with sleep and can't argue with

you but I know you're wrong." She went into the elevator

and the colored elevator boy got up yawning and stretch:'

ing. The last she saw of Edwin in the rapidly decreasing

patch of light between the floor of the elevator and the

ceiling of the vestibule he was shaking his fist at her. She

threw him a kiss without meaning to.

When she got in the apartment, Ada, who was reading

in the livingroom, scolded her a little for being so late,

but she pleaded that she was too tired and sleepy to be

scolded. "What do you think of Edwin Vinal, Ada?"

"Why, my dear, I think he's a splendid young fellow, a

little restless maybe, but he'll settle down. . . . Why?"

"Oh, I dunno," said Daughter, yawning, "Good night,

Ada darlin'."

he took a hot bath and put a lot of perfume on and

went to bed, but she couldn't go to sleep. Her legs ached

from the greasy pavements and she could feel the walls

of the tenements sweating lust and filth and the smell of

crowded bodies closing in on her, in spite of the perfume

she still had the rank garbagy smell in her nose, and the

dazzle of street lights and faces pricked her eyes. When

she went to sleep she dreamed she had rouged her lips and

was walking up and down, up and down with a gun in her

handbag; Joe Washburn walked by and she kept catching

at his arm to try to make him stop but he kept walking by

without looking at her and so did Dad and they wouldn't

look when a big Jew with a beard kept getting closer to

her and he smelt horrid of the East Side and garlic and

waterclosets and she tried to get the gun out of her bag

to shoot him and he had his arms around her and was pull-

ing her face close to his. She couldn't get the gun out of

the handbag and behind the roaring clatter of the subway

in her ears was Edwin Vinal's voice saying, "You're a

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