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Updated: May 8, 2025
He followed after her, and stood with the lanterns dangling against his white-flannelled thighs, emphasising the shadow around. 'Kiss me before we go, came his voice softly from out of the shadow above. She stopped her work in real, momentary astonishment. 'But why? she exclaimed, in pure surprise. 'Why? he echoed, ironically. And she looked at him fixedly for some moments.
That man, with his fine, white-flannelled limbs and his dark head, has no suspicion of the shadow that supports it all. Between the blueness of the sea and the sky he passes easy as a gull, close to the fine white seamew of his mate, amid red flowers of flags, and soft birds of ships, and slow-moving monsters of steamboats. 'For me the day is transparent and shrivelling.
It was as if at each bend of the shore I expected to find a temple with pillars, or a column crowning the next promontory; or, where the coast-track wound down to the little haven, to happen on a votive tablet erected to Poseidon or to "Helen's brothers, lucent stars"; nay, to meet with Odysseus' fisherman carrying an oar on his shoulder, or even, in an amphitheatre of the cliffs, to surprise Apollo himself and the Nine seated on a green plat whence a waterfall gushed down the coombe to the sandy beach . . . . This evening on my way along the cliffs perhaps because I had spent a day bathing in sunshine in the company of white-flannelled youths the old sensation had returned to haunt me.
To this I went, excited at the prospect of my first sight of a 'ball game, and my mind vaguely reminiscent of the indolent, decorous, upper-class crowd, the sunlit spaces, the dignified ritual, and white-flannelled grace of Lord's at the 'Varsity cricket match. The crowd was gay, and not very large.
Come on; I'll lick the very life out of you over the net!" A few moments later the white balls were flying over the white net, and active white-flannelled figures were moving swiftly over the velvet turf.
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