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XII
SUN-MISTS
He looked round anxiously to see if everything was
there, as if it were possible to see anything at all in that
confusion of people and luggage on the upper deck.
He felt guilty of an unknown crime, until the steamer
had passed the mill. He was dazzled by the blinding
sun, the sea appeared to be boundless, and the hazy blue
mountains called him with irresistible force. His eyes
fell on the children’s perambulator ; the one painted white
with the blue cover, not the other one ; he knew it so
well, there were little white milkspots on the blue cover.
And over there was the big arm-chair and the drawing-
room sofa and the bath with the flower-pots. How dusty
the poor things looked, they had spent the whole winter
in a cloud of tobacco smoke ; the pelargoniums used to
stand on the writing-table in the lamplight, in the early
spring, when the evenings were still long ; the arm-chair
stood to the right of the writing-table, and whenever he
looked up from his work, whenever the restless pen stopped
for a second, he received a friendly nod. But when there
was no one sitting in the arm-chair, his tired eyes travelled
to the cretonne flowers on the sofa ; but there were so
many eyes staring into the room, and how the lamp
flickered ! Ah ! it was the sun shining on the upper deck !
What was that over there? A pair of eyes familiar last
j^ear—how dull they were ! Had he been ill ? No I
They had not met since last year ; one never met in town,
one was so busy there ! One left one’s school and went
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