What Proust Heard by Michael Lucey;

Author:Michael Lucey; [Lucey, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LAN000000 Language Arts & Disciplines / General, LAN009050 Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LIT006000 Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory, LIT020000 Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

“Captain Pargiter,” the man boomed out; and there was Kitty standing at the door. She was formal; fashionable; with a dash of red on her lips. She gave him her hand; but he moved on for other guests were arriving. “A saloon?” he said to himself, for the room with its chandeliers, yellow panels, and sofas and chairs dotted about had the air of a grandiose waiting-room. Seven or eight people were already there. It’s not going to work this time, he said to himself as he chatted with his host, who had been racing. His face shone as if it had only that moment been taken out of the sun. [ . . . ] No, it’s not going to work, Martin thought as they talked about horses. [ . . . ] When a party worked all things, all sounds merged into one. [ . . . ] He glanced at Kitty’s portrait by a fashionable portrait painter as he chatted, standing first on this foot, then on that, to the grizzled man with the bloodhound eyes and the urbane manner whom Kitty had married instead of Edward. Then she came up and introduced him to a girl all in white who was standing alone with her hand on the back of a chair.

“Miss Ann Hillier,” she said. “My cousin, Captain Pargiter.” (235–36)

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