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136 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1931
So they waited together, two linked stems of a flower that is dying, every day in silence. But they had made total preparation for death. Whatever happened now could be no cause of fear.
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With his hands covered in pollen, he entered her room holding the flowers as an offering.
‘Spring has finally come.’
‘They are so beautiful. Aren’t they beautiful?’ she said, smiling and stretching out her thin and wasted hands toward the flowers.
‘Really beautiful, aren’t they?’ he said.
‘Where did they come from?’
‘They came riding here in a carriage, along the shore of the sea, scattering the first seeds of spring as they came.’