In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

think?" He started to say more, but instead, he just slipped it on her
finger and kissed her hand.
"I know you're my friend, I don't need some gold thing," she
said.
"Penelope, think no more about Ula, this is for us now, now
and forever. I love you for always, remember." She buried her face in
his shirt, helpless.
Back out in public, Boulot edged in. "Monsieur Tivoglio,
Docteur Bell, Blaise Boulot, Enchanté!" Penny stuck out her hand.
Boulot kissed it, and Sandro pretended to be charmed.
"Tell me, mademoiselle, in what manner have the magnificent
mountains of your wild west inspired you? Have you, like Bruckner,
spent the evening hours counting the stars? Perhaps surfing their more
terrifying waves? 'Ein jeder Engel ist schrecklich,' and you are angelic!
'Beauty is a terror we can barely endure...'"
Sandro led her away from him to the center of the dance floor
and on the face of the sun kissed her as a roar rose and swelled up, into
a chorus of shrill squeaks. It was midnight, and his timing, as always,
was exact. All the glittery people were in a frenzy, making complete
fools of them selves now, wearing the paper hats and blowing into
cardboard bugles.
"The Baccarole!" Sandro tugged at her to join the line of
revelers that wound around the room in the old peasant dance.
"No, no, please, can we go? I can't take any more."
"But this is the end!"
Early next afternoon after a late breakfast, he asked, "When is
your tribunal?"
"The twenty first, why?"
"Because we will have to be in New York. You will see Dr Züt
in New York, yes? He is in Zurich for the next three weeks."
"I guess, the medicine is doing the trick, and I don't feel any
side effects, yet."
"We have some time to see more things around Paris."
"Well, I hate making plans, but I would like to go to a concert."
"A concert?" He gulped, smacked his forehead.
"Yeah, maybe in the sci-fi hall by Bastille?"
"Yes, they have concerts there, but also in many other places,
do you want classical or avant-garde?"
"I saw they were having a good modern one at the Bastille,
Xenakis and Scelsi, two of my favorites!"
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