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Balcony Stories

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Excerpt: ...of pain and illness held her. That is all. She is still there. The poor, poor women of that stricken region say that little Mammy was the only alleviation God left them after Sheridan passed through, and the richer ones say very much the same thing- But one should hear her tell it herself, as has been said, on a cold, gloomy winter day in the country, the fire glimmering on the hearth, the overworked husband in the fields, the baby quiet at last, the mother uneasy, restless, thought-driven, the soft black hand rubbing backward and forward, rubbing out aches and frets and nervousness. The eyelids droop, the firelight plays fantasies on the bed-curtains, the ear drops words, sentences, one gets confused-one sleeps-one dreams. "ONE OF US" At the first glance one might have been inclined to doubt, but at the second anybody would have recognized her-that is, with a little mental rehabilitation: the bright little rouge spots in the hollow of her cheek, the eyebrows well accentuated with paint, the thin lips rose-tinted, and the dull, straight hair frizzed and curled and twisted and turned by that consummate rascal and artist, the official beautifier and rectifier of stage humanity, Robert, the opera coiffeur. Who in the world knows better than he the gulf between the real and the ideal, the limitations between the natural and the romantic? Yes, one could see her, in that time-honored thin silk dress of hers stiffened into brocade by buckram underneath, the high, low-necked waist, hiding any evidences of breast, if there were such evidences to hide, and bringing the long neck into such faulty prominence, and the sleeves, crisp puffs of tulle divided by bands of red velvet, through which the poor lean arm runs like a wire, stringing them together like beads. Yes, it was she, the whilom dugazon of the opera troupe. Not that she ever was a dugazon, but that was what her voice once aspired to be: a dugazon manquée would better...
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