The Wedding (1995)
“There were other off-islanders waiting in sleek cars, and others who were just as clearly stamped “summer people” who had left their cars to walk restless pedigreed dogs or restless, radiantly healthy children. Their sun-browned holiday faces were turned seaward, waiting to catch a glimpse of the steamship, islander, when she rounded the cliffs, the sun on her gleaming white flanks, her whistle sounding for a landing, the green sea parting to let her pass and quieting the waves in her wake.
cla...rk alone sat with a tight, tormented face, his tan washed out by his pallor, his eye oblivious, his ears rejecting the joy around him.
The letter was like a wound in his clutched hand, its words burned into his palm, as traceable as a pattern in braille. He had left the oval well ahead of the ferry’s arrival with the stated purpose of stopping for gas, picking up the morning paper that had come in on the early plane, and making a reservation for the ferrying of his car across the sound as soon after the wedding as space on the steamer was available.MoreLess
cla...rk alone sat with a tight, tormented face, his tan washed out by his pallor, his eye oblivious, his ears rejecting the joy around him.
The letter was like a wound in his clutched hand, its words burned into his palm, as traceable as a pattern in braille. He had left the oval well ahead of the ferry’s arrival with the stated purpose of stopping for gas, picking up the morning paper that had come in on the early plane, and making a reservation for the ferrying of his car across the sound as soon after the wedding as space on the steamer was available.MoreLess
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