Not long after that, I left, but I didn’t know Eliot had asked me if I would like to have lunch with his Mathurin father.
Henry is the most powerful businessman in America. He said, I think you should know him. He has been in charge of our family investment for many years.
I didn’t particularly want to know him, but I readily agreed to his invitation by refusing.
seven
During my stay in Chicago, I often stayed in an attached library meeting. The next morning, I went to look for one or two magazines, which were hard to get unless I ordered them. I was sitting alone in a big leather chair and absorbed in reading. Unexpectedly, it was Larry. I didn’t expect to meet him in the library. When I passed by, he looked up and recognized me, and he was bound to get up.
Just sit down. I’ll ask you what you’re reading after I finish.
Read it. He smiles and jokes. It’s charming. It’s not polite to answer flatly.
He stared at me with a pair of misty eyes, and his grip angle just covered his name.
Did you have fun last night? I asked
I didn’t go home until five in the morning.
It must be tiring to come here early in the morning.
I often come here, usually there is no one else at this time.
I won’t bother you.
You didn’t bother me, he said, smiling again. I realized that his smile was sunny and sweet, not too bright and dazzling, but lit up his face from the outside. He sat next to the cabinet and put his hand on the back of the chair instead of sitting.
all right
He handed me his hand.
I was just reading this.
I took a look at it, and it was William James. This is suspected to be an important and very easy-to-change psychological history, but I never thought that a young man who used to dance as a pilot and didn’t come home until five in the morning would read it.
Why would you want to read this?
I know too little.
You are still young, I said with a smile.
He was silent for a long time, and the atmosphere was a little awkward. I wanted to get up and look for those magazines, but I always felt that he wanted to say something. He looked at the front with a dignified expression and seemed to have entered meditation. I quietly waited to be curious about other things. When he finally spoke, he seemed to continue the previous conversation and didn’t realize the long silence.
When I came back from France, my relatives and friends wanted me to go to college, but I really couldn’t. After so many things, I felt that I couldn’t go back to college. Besides, I didn’t get anything at the science school. I thought it would be the same for me to integrate myself into the life of freshmen. I don’t want to force myself to be a freshman and I don’t recognize the teacher to teach knowledge.
Of course, this is your own business, I said, but I don’t agree with you. I know what you mean. It’s really annoying for you to come back from two years’ war and be a glamorous freshman. But I don’t think they will crowd you out. I’m not familiar with the big situation in the United States, but I believe that American freshmen and British freshmen are not very different. Maybe they are noisy, but they are still sensible and good children, and you don’t want them to be soft. No one will care about you. I didn’t go to Cambridge like my brother. In retrospect, I really regret that I decided to make a lot of avoidable mistakes. The teacher has a wide life experience and you will learn faster. No one can point out that you have to take many wrong paths.
Maybe. I’m not afraid of making mistakes. Maybe I’ll find my purpose in life in one of the wrong ways.
So what’s your goal in life
He hesitated for a moment and then said, that’s the problem. I’m not sure yet
I don’t say a word because I seem to be unable to respond to anything. I was really impatient with this since I was a child, but I held back my sexuality and knew with an intuition that the child’s heart was confused, but he was willing to go ahead. Maybe it was immature ideas or budding emotions that made his soul restless and tried to explore the future direction. It’s strange that he provoked my sympathy. I have never heard him say so many words before, and now I realize that his voice is really sweet, eloquent, healing and charming, with dark eyes. No wonder Isabel fell in love with him. He is really lovable. Larry is not shy at the moment.
You should talk about me after a group of us danced last night.
It did arrive a little.
No wonder they insist on uncle Bob’s dinner. He hates doors.
I heard that you have a great job opportunity.
It’s a great job opportunity
Will you go?
Probably not.
What is it?
I don’t want to go.
Although I’m meddling, it’s irrelevant to steal from myself. Larry, a foreigner, will be more willing to confide in me.