VV(13): Enters Weismann.
Michel Ryckx
michel.ryckx at freebel.net
Mon Apr 9 12:54:08 CDT 2001
236.20 Vera Meroving, presented like an Amazone: 'jodhpurs and
army-shirt, smoking'. In the background 'cries of pain lanced...'
(236.22). Mondaugen notices her hands trembling (237.13) A few moments
later, ...'Weissmann appeared in mufti from behind an
unwholesome-looking palm and pulled her by the hand, back into the
depths of the house'. (237.18-20)
Note he 'pulled', and not 'took'.
'From behind': was he watching them?
That is the way Weissmann is introduced: in the middle of or just after
cries of pain, a woman trembling, she not knowing what it was like
outside
(237.12).
238. Mondaugen sees the both of them through a mirror. She, 'striking
at his chest with what appeared a riding crop' (238.4-5), he talking so
that 'the voyeur Mondaugen could lip-read each obscenity' (238.7).
And why is Weissmann's hand 'curiously gloved' (238.12)?
Enters Weissmann amidst terror and pain.
Michel.
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