.. Seminars in Style (.142).
There would have been no silly row that night at all if it hadnt been for Farren. That disgusting scene before dinner! That was what had driven him, Campbell, to the McCellans arms. His hand hesitated on the wheel. Why not go back and have the thing out with Farren?
After all, what did it matter? He stopped the car and lit a cigarette, smoking fast and savagely. If the whole place was against him, he hated the place anyhow. There was only one decent person in it, and she was tied up to that brute Farren. The worst of it was, she was devoted to Farren. She didnt care twopence for anybody else, if Farren would only see it. And he, Campbell, knew it as well as anybody. He wanted nothing wrong. He only wanted, whan he was tired, anfd fretted, and sick of his own lonely, uncomfortable shack of a place, to go and sit among the cool greens and blues of Gilda Farrens sitting-room, and be soothed by her slim beauty and comforting voice. And Farren, with no more sense of imagination than a bull, must come blundering in, breaking the spell, putting his own foul interpretation on the thing, tramping the lilies in Campbells garden of refuge. No wonder Farrens landscapes looked as if they were painted with an axe. The man had no delicacy. His reds and blues hurt your eyes, and he saw life in reds and blues. If Farren were to die, now if one could take his bullneck in ones hands and squeeze it till his great staring blue eyes popped out like - he laughed - like bulls eyes - that was a damned funny joke. Hes like to tell Farren that and see how he took it.
Farren was a devil, a beast, a bully, with his artistic temperament, which was nothing but inartistic temper. There was no peace with Farren about. There was no peace anywhere. (D. Sayers)
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didnt care twopence for anybody else;
- she was tied up to that brute;
- - if Farren would only see it ( Farren did not see it).
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tired and fretted and sick;
He wanted He wanted.
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(the cool greens and blues), cool (the cool greens);
slim, comforting (voice).
, . (foul interpretation). , , - the lilies in Campbells garden of refuge, , , : And Farren, with no more sense of imagination than a bull, must come blundering in, breaking the spell, tramping the lilies : b ull, b lundering, b reaking.
, (landscapes looked as if they were painted with an axe). his reds and blues, : His reds and blues, hurt your eye, and he saw life in reds and blues reds and blues ; .
: brute, devil, beast, bullneck, like bulls eyes, - If Farren were to die, now if one could take bullneck in ones hands and squeeze it till his great staring eyes popped out like bulls eyes
, (he laughed, that was a funny joke). that was (), . artistic temperament inartistic temper, temper . : There was no peace with Farren about. There was no peace anywhere. .
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, . : He only wanted, when he was tired and fretted and sick of his lonely, uncomfortable shack, of a place, to go and sit among the cool green and blues of Gilda. Farrens sitting-room and be soothed by her slim beauty and comforting voice.
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savagely, interpretation, delicacy, artistic, landscape, temperament.
row, straight, away, to have something out, brute, to be tied up to somebody, not to care a twopence, to be sick of, etc.
damned, devil.
(hadnt, didnt, hed), that , , , (that disgusting scene, that brute).
thing : have the thing out, putting his own foul interpretation on the thing.
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(That disgusting scene before dinner!);
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(After all, what did it matter? Why not go back?);
a damned funny joke;
(after all, anyhow, no wonder).
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