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Yes, he knows me. Sitting in chair. Calm,detached voice.It's a special kind of medicine. I have to take it because there is no other that can stop the pain-all the pain-I mean, in my hands. Raise hands look at them melancholy (sadly).Poor hands! You'd never believe it, but they were once one my good points, along with my hair and eyes, and I had a fine figure, too. Speaking dreamilyThey were musician's hands. I used to love the piano. I worked hard at my music in the Convent-if you can call it work when you do something you love. Mother Elizabeth and my music teacher both siad I had more talent than any student they remembered. My father paid for special lessons. He spoiled me. He would do anything I asked. He would have sent me to Europe to study after I graduated from the Convent. I might have gone-if I hadn't fallen in love with Mr. Tyrone. Or I might have become a nun. I had two dreams. To be a nun, that was the more beautiful one. To become a concert pianist, that was the other. Pause, look at hands. I haven't touched a piano in so many years. I couldn't play with such cri
See, Cathleen, how ugly they are! So maimed and crippled! You would think they'd been through some horrible accident! Give strange laugh. For a time after my marriage I tried to keep up my music. You go back until at least you are beyond its reach. You can imagine how excited I was when my father wrote me he and James Tyrone had become friends, and that I was to meet him when I came home for Easter Vaction. It has made me forgive so many other things. I know he liked me the first moment we were introduced. My father had said we'd go backstaage to his dressing room right after the play, so we did. That has made me very happy, Cathleen.
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Mother Elizabeth,
French Revolution,
Yes Sitting,
Easter Vaction,
James Tyrone,
concert pianist,
eyes nose,
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