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‘If only I could meet Kitty once again, I thought, and woo her as a man - and then reveal myself, to break her heart, as she had broken mine! … The only glimpses I ever had of her were in my dreams. In those she was still sweet and lovely, still calling my name and offering me her mouth to kiss…’

& there goes waters again with the treachery & hate-to-love-you tropes!!!!!! absolute cinema.

‘I was eighteen, and knew nothing. I thought, at that moment, that I would die of love for her.’
the foreshadowing for the inevitable heartbreak… waters u mad genius, i’m begging for betrayal and hate-to-love-you tropes 🤤

“I watch the acts before her and they are like nothing - they’re like dust. Then she walks on the stage and - she is so pretty; and her suit is so nice; and her voice is so sweet ... She makes me want to smile and weep, at once. She makes me sore, here.’ I placed a hand upon my chest, upon the breast-bone. ‘I never saw a girl like her before. I never knew that there were girls like her…”

‘…a strip of pale flesh at the nape of her neck where the collar ended and the hairline began that - for all the fire of the hot, hot hall - made me shiver. She looked, I suppose, like a very pretty boy, for her face was a perfect oval…her lips were rosy and full. Her figure, too, was boy-like and slender - yet rounded, vaguely but unmistakably, at the bosom, the stomach, and the hips…’ KITTY BUTLER🤤