I mean do ya like me?
I think you're really... I mean do ya like me?
I think you're really swell, Roy, you know you are a gentleman, you're not fresh like all the other fellowsHe is disappointed, vaguely humiliated, and yet he generates some prideI got other things on my mind
I know, you always seem to be thinking, you know, Roy, I never know what's going on in your head, and I'd like to know because I think you're different
How?
Well, you're shy, I don't mean shy but you're nice
You should heah me talkin' to the guys
Oh, I believe you're just the same with them, you wouldn't be any different(Her hand drops abstractedly on his knee, and she jerks it away with embarrassment I wish you'd go to church more often
I go pretty regularly
Yes, but there's something bothering you, I wonder about it, you're a mystery
Yeah? He is pleased
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Aw, he's all right, it's just something with the club, you know they were tryin' me out, but it's nothin' much
I wouldn't want you to get in trouble
Why?
(She looks at him, her eyes passive and calmThis time she puts her hand on his arm
His throat is tense and his chest aches with warmth and hungerHe shivers as he hears the girl giggling againThis is swell out here at City Point, he says(The thick lusting dreams at night for he knows not what I'll tell ya, Mary, if I was goin' steady -- his voice is strong with his sense of renunciation -- I wouldn' be hangin' around with them so
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You would?
He listens to the lapping of the surfI love ya, Mary, he says suddenly, holding himself stiff and cold, troubled delicately by a passing uncertainty
I think I do too, RoyAfter a while he kisses her gently, then hungrily, but a corner of his mind has retreated and become coldOh, I love ya, kid, he says huskily, trying to cauterize the doubtCity Point is so beautiful, she says
In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the condoms that wallow sluggishly on the foam's edge, discarded on the shore like the minuscule loathsome animals of the sea
Yeah, it's something, he says slowly
Hey, theah, Roy, how's the old married man, how's it feel gettin' it steady, what do ya say?
Aw, it's
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I'm glad you're with me today, Roy, you know we think you're all right, but we ain't seen much of ya
Aaah, well, I quit the CU, he mumbles, and I thought maybe the boys were you know not so glad to see me
Well, ya shoulda told 'em, but between you an' me, the club is gonna lay off 'em for a while, started gettin' pressure from on top, clear out of the state I heardIt always pays to stick with the club, you don't go wrong that way, I bet if you hadn't been with the CU you woulda been the election captain here today, I hope there's no hahd feelin's, Roy(He feels a dull resentmentBack wheah I staarted I bet some of those rich kikes in the
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The wife wanted me to quit 'em(He thinks of her sleeping now, hears the rough surprisingly male heartiness of her snoring
Married life gone okay with ya? What're ya doin' now?
Yeah, it's fineI'm drivin' a truck(Mary has bought a lace cover for the table
Listen, these Reds who are runnin' M'Gillis, aw, M'Gillis a Black Irishman if there ever was one, imagine a guy givin' up his religion, well, anyway the big boys ain't worryin' about him for the primaries, but theah's a bunch of union men in this district and Mac says we got to make a good showing right here so they won't be buildin' up
We bringin' over any repeatehs? Gallagher asks
Yeah, but I got me own little idea(He removes several bottles of ketchup from a paper bag, and begins to pour them on the
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