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At the end of supper, during dessert, the an to

play, violins, and flutes Everybody's face was lit up A glow

of excitement prevailed When the little speeches were over, and

the port remained unreached for any more, those ished were

invited out to the open for coffee The night ar, the reat, red, fla, the hts inside

The young people flocked out into the hter and voices, and a scent of coffee The

farures, pale and

dark, flitted about, interlinted on a

white or a silken skirt, the lanterns gleauests

To Ursula it onderful She felt she was a new being The

darkness seereat beast,

the haystacks loomed half-revealed, a crowd of them, a dark,

fecund lair just behind Waves of delirious darkness ran through

her soul She wanted to let go She wanted to reach and be

a stars, she wanted to race with her feet and

be beyond the confines of this earth She wason the leash, ready to hurl

itself after a nameless quarry into the dark And she was the