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Litterateur redefining world December 2020
- Can I read something from your
books? - she asked me once,
suddenly appearing in front of my
apartment.
At first, I was very surprised.
Nobody here asked me for books.
Nevertheless, I invited her inside.
- Thank you very much! I will read
- You have so many books! it quickly!
She looked around my library and Her first book was "Martin Eden".
rejoiced like a little child. I stood Then she began to come to me in
silently in front of the window, every three or four days. We
pressing a cigarette to my lips. I almost did not communicate, she
did not want to answer her. I was a little confused, especially
thought that then she would ask when she saw that I do not pay
more questions. I was used to not attention to her. When she noticed
answering anybody when I was how indifferent I was smoking at
smoking. the window, she would carefully
return the book she had read to
- Can I take Jack London's book? - the shelf and hurriedly leave.
she asked.
Eventually, it turned into our
I nodded as a sign of consent, routine. But for the last time,
inhaling cigarette smoke and everything was different. I don't
turning my back on her. Nafeesa even know why. This time, I did
took the book and thanked me not smoke at the window. On the
from the bottom of her heart. contrary, I sat in a chair and did
not take my eyes off her. She was
in no hurry to leave, too, leaving a
book. She stood in front of the
shelf longer than usual, as if she
could not choose. After a long
pause, she took Marques's "One
hundred years of solitude" and
looked at it with interest, standing
in the center of the room.
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