"will always think of the lovely teas we had together scrumptious currant scones and raspberry wafers I adore well now dearest Doggerina be sure and write soon kind she left out regards to your father also captain Grove with love yrs affly Hester xxxxx" (U18.620)
"she didnt look a bit married just like a girl he was years older than her wogger he was awfully fond of me when he held down the wire with his foot for me to step over at the bullfight at La Linea" (U18.623)
"when that matador Gomez was given the bulls ear" (U18.626)
A PC of a matador in a splendid 'habit de lumiere.' Matador Gomez anachronistically evokes Jose Gomez (1895 - 1920), known as Joselito, a Spanish bullfighter born in Gelves (Andalusia) and the youngest bullfighter to receive the title of matador at the age of 17. Joselito was fatally wounded at age 25 during a competitive bullfight with his brother-in-law.
A PC of a matador in a splendid 'habit de lumiere.' Matador Gomez anachronistically evokes Jose Gomez (1895 - 1920), known as Joselito, a Spanish bullfighter born in Gelves (Andalusia) and the youngest bullfighter to receive the title of matador at the age of 17. Joselito was fatally wounded at age 25 during a competitive bullfight with his brother-in-law.
"these clothes we have to wear whoever invented them" (U18.627)
"expecting you to walk up Killiney hill" (U18.627)
"then for example at that picnic all staysed up you cant do a blessed thing in them in a crowd run or jump out of the way" (U18.628)
"that's why I was afraid when that other ferocious old Bull began to charge the banderilleros with the sashes and the 2 things in their hats and the brutes of men shouting bravo toro" (U18.629)
"sure the women were as bad in their nice white mantillas ripping all the whole insides out of those poor horses I never heard of such a thing in all my life yes yes he used to break his heart at me taking off the dog barking in bell lane poor brute and it sick what became of them ever I suppose theyre dead long ago the 2 of them its like all through a mist makes you feel so old" (U18.632)
"I made the scones of course I had everything all to myself then a girl Hester we used to compare our hair mine was thicker than hers she showed me how to settle it at the back when I put it up and whats this else how to make a knot on a thread with the one hand we were like cousins what age was I then the night of the storm I slept in her bed she had her arms round me then we were fighting in the morning with the pillow what fun" (U18.637)
"he was watching me whenever he got an opportunity at the band on the Alameda esplanade when I was with father and captain Grove I looked up at the church first and then at the windows then down and our eyes met I felt something go through me like all needles my eyes were dancing" (U18.642)
"dancing I remember after when I looked at myself in the glass hardly recognised myself the change he was attractive to a girl in spite of his being a little bald intelligent looking disappointed and gay at the same time he was like Thomas in the shadow of Ashlydyat I had a splendid skin from the sun and the excitement like a rose I didnt get a wink of sleep it wouldnt have been nice on account of her but I could have stopped it in time" (U18.647)
"she gave me the Moonstone to read that was the first I read of Wilkie Collins East Lynne I read and the shadow of Ashlydyat Mrs Henry Wood Henry Dunbar by that other woman I lent him afterwards with Mulveys photo in it so as he see I wasnt without" (U18.652)
"and Lord Lytton Eugene Aram Molly bawn she gave me by Mrs Hungerford" (U18.656)
"on account of the name I dont like books with a Molly in them like that one he brought me about the one from Flanders a whore always shoplifting anything she could cloth and stuff and yards of it O this blanket is too heavy on me thats better" (U18.657)
"I havent even one decent nightdress this thing gets all rolled under me besides him and his fooling thats better" (U18.660)
"I used to be weltering then in the heat my shift drenched with the sweat stuck in the cheeks of my bottom on the chair when I stood up they were so fattish and firm when I got up on the sofa cushions to see with my clothes up and the bugs tons of them at night and the mosquito nets I couldnt read a line" (U18.662)