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wanted to be kissed by him, but he put a record by Chopin on the oldfashioned
pickup. The piano music made her all dreamy. The portraits
on the walls were pale, as if these people had died when they were still
young. Then it was early morning in George St., down in the deep shade
of the skyscrapers, but the sky was already radiant in the opening
above the Rocks. She was walking down the street with a young black
dog on leash. The dog did not belong to her, she could not remember its
name, but she should not let it escape, because, not knowing its name,
she could not claim it at the pound and the dog’s owner would be very
angry. He had said: “For nothing in the world!” She wore tight denims,
a bit too tight at the crutch and between her round buttocks, perhaps,
but she felt very sexy. Two young men in a red convertible stopped to
ask her if she wanted a ride to Bondi Junction. She had nothing to do
there, unless it was the place where she was supposed to take the black
dog. She couldn’t remember. The guys in the convertible were talking
too much, she was thirsty, she fell asleep under a tree, she did not even
open her eyes when the man, who had shaved his moustache, said: “I am
so glad to see you at long last. I have been looking for you everywhere.
The dog is gone, but it does not matter, Mr. Smith has always objected
to my keeping it in the flat.”
When she woke up in the morning, she remembered that the
dog’s name was Blackie, although its master did not speak English and
she was not sure whether he had told her, in his strange tongue, that he
was attracted to her, or it was some other girl, a long time ago, and she
looked so much like her. Joël had left a note on the dressing table: “I
love you, Muriel.” The sun was bright among the last flowers of the big
flame tree in the back garden, but she still had to attend school another
couple of weeks before the long Summer vacation.
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LA MAISON, EN bois et en briques, n’était pas très grande :
une bonne salle de séjour avec une cuisine-bar et un coin
salle à manger, trois chambres dont deux assez exiguës,
deux salles de bains, dont l’une communiquait avec la chambre principale.
Plan-type emprunté à un catalogue pour lotissement américain