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Updated: June 16, 2025
Heise started back from the sudden apparition of a white-lipped woman in a blue dressing-gown that seemed to rise up before him from his very doorstep. "Well, Mrs. McTeague, you did scare me, for " "Oh, come over here quick." Trina put her hand to her neck; swallowing something that seemed to be choking her. "Maria's killed Zerkow's wife I found her." "Get out!" exclaimed Heise, "you're joking."
I say, 'If you touch me with that, then I'll NEVER tell you. Just pretending, you know, and he drops it as though it was red hot. Say, Mrs. McTeague, have you got any tea? Let's make a cup of tea over the stove." "No, no," cried Trina, with niggardly apprehension; "no, I haven't got a bit of tea."
It was as though they too had won. "Here's right where I sat when I bought that ticket," cried Trina, after they had come into the "Parlors," and Marcus had lit the gas. "Right here in this chair." She sat down in one of the rigid chairs under the steel engraving. "And, Marcus, you sat here " "And I was just getting out of the operating chair," interposed Miss Baker. "Yes, yes.
Give me something to eat, an' let me in an' sleep. I've been sleeping in the Plaza for the last ten nights, and say, I Damn it, Trina, I ain't had anything to eat since " "Where's the four hundred dollars you robbed me of when you deserted me?" returned Trina, coldly. "Well, I've spent it," growled the dentist. "But you CAN'T see me starve, Trina, no matter what's happened.
"I'm always up at half-past six, but I don't always get out so soon. I wanted to get a nice head of cabbage and some lentils for a soup, and if you don't go to market early, the restaurants get all the best." "And you've been to market already, Miss Baker?" "Oh, my, yes; and I got a fish a sole see." She drew the sole in question from her basket. "Oh, the lovely sole!" exclaimed Trina.
The little dressmaker might ask her to stay to lunch, and that would be something saved, as the dentist had announced his intention that morning of taking a long walk out to the Presidio to be gone all day. But Trina rapped on Miss Baker's door in vain that morning. She was out. Perhaps she was gone to the florist's to buy some geranium seeds.
McTeague went softly about the room from one object to another, beholding Trina in everything he touched or looked at. He came at last to the closet door. It was ajar. He opened it wide, and paused upon the threshold. Trina's clothes were hanging there skirts and waists, jackets, and stiff white petticoats. What a vision! For an instant McTeague caught his breath, spellbound.
He would sit up in bed, rolling his eyes wildly, throwing out his huge fists at what, he did not know exclaiming, "What what " bewildered and hopelessly confused. Then when he realized that it was only Trina, his anger kindled abruptly. "Oh, you and your dreams! You go to sleep, or I'll give you a dressing down."
The two sisters seemed to stand before her like two splendid creatures, full of beauty and fine gifts, while she stood there a stupid, awkward, block-headed Trina, whom nobody on earth ever could possibly love. Mrs. Halm gave Nika great encouragement by praising her work and urging her to begin promptly next day. Then she sat down at the piano, for they always concluded their evening with a song.
Sieppe, half way down the stairs, kept calling "Gome, gome, we miss der drain." Mrs. Sieppe released Trina and started down the hall, the twins and Owgooste following. Trina stood in the doorway, looking after them through her tears. They were going, going. When would she ever see them again? She was to be left alone with this man to whom she had just been married.
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