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The Beggar Maid
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The Beggar Maid
Patrick Blatchford was in love with Rose. This had become a fixed1, even furious, idea with him.
For her, a continual surprise. He wanted to marry her. He waited for her after classes, moved inand walked beside her, so that anybody she was talking to would have to reckon with his presence.
He would not talk, when these friends or classmates of hers were around, but he would try to catchher eye, so that he could indicate by a cold incredulous look what he thought of their conversation.
Rose was flattered, but nervous. A girl named Nancy Falls, a friend of hers, mispronouncedMetternich in his presence. He said to her later, “How can you be friends with people like that?”
Nancy and Rose had gone and sold their blood together, at Victoria Hospital. They each gotfifteen dollars. They spent most of the money on evening shoes, tarty silver sandals. Then becausethey were sure the bloodletting had caused them to lose weight they had hot fudge sundaes atBoomers. Why was Rose unable to defend Nancy to Patrick?
Patrick was twenty-four years old, a graduate student, planning to be a history professor. Hewas tall, thin, fair, and good-looking, though he had a long pale-red birthmark, dribbling3 like a teardown his temple and his cheek. He apologized for it, but said it was fading, as he got older. Whenhe was forty, it would have faded away. It was not the birthmark that canceled out his good looks,Rose thought. (Something did cancel them out, or at least diminish them, for her; she had to keepreminding herself they were there.) There was something edgy4, jumpy, disconcerting, about him.
His voice would break under stress—with her, it seemed he was always under stress—he knockeddishes and cups off tables, spilled drinks and bowls of peanuts, like a comedian5. He was not acomedian; nothing could be further from his intentions. He came from British Columbia. Hisfamily was rich.
He arrived early to pick Rose up, when they were going to the movies. He wouldn’t knock, heknew he was early. He sat on the step outside Dr. Henshawe’s door. This was in the winter, it wasdark out, but there was a little coach lamp beside the door.
“Oh, Rose! Come and look!” called Dr. Henshawe, in her soft, amused voice, and they lookeddown together from the dark window of the study. “The poor young man,” said Dr. Henshawetenderly. Dr. Henshawe was in her seventies. She was a former English professor, fastidious andlively. She had a
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