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Family Passions 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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1 CHARLESTON; S.C<br >Jason Beauregard Baynard III swung one army-surplus duffle bag<br >over a shoulder and kicked the other before him through the door of<br >his bedroom onto the coco matting of the upper piazza. Oleander,<br >pale yellow and ubiquitous, clambered over the railing from fat clay<br >pots at the edge. From the fluted pillars that supported the overhang,<br >wisteria and trumpet creeper fought for control of the old palmetto<br >taller than the house that charted two lifetimes between the upper<br >and lower piazza. Jason looked up at the palmetto s fan of leaves, its<br >ephemeral wisps and tufts of Spanish moss motionless as mist in the<br >moist heat of the early morning air. Jason leaned on his elbows over<br >the railing and let his eyes slide gradually down the trunk of the<br >palmetto. Oleander fell and bruised on the neat bricks of the garden<br >walk below. On the back of his neck, the sun poured slow, thick as<br >honey, hot, sweet; and the stultifying fragrance of the air quivered his<br >nostrils. He sneezed. Civilized! The most civilized town in the world.<br > Civilization. The very word was like a sneeze.<br > Jason sneezed again. No breeze from the harbor, hot, thick air, oh,<br >God, the cloying scents of Old Charleston, a walled and concentrated<br >garden club for ladies in fussy pastels and hats and gloves. I m allergic<br >to Old Charleston! Jason sneezed once more, with great satisfaction.<br >He gathered his duffles in his arms, a fat lumpy heap, and dropped<br >them over the rail. He looked down. Crushing oleander, the duffles<br >crumpled together on the garden walk like a body with all the bones<br >broken.<br > Jason turned to contemplate the palmetto again. It had grown.<br >When he and his sister, Tradd, were children, the palm fronds had<br >still encroached the upper piazza and you had to duck under jagged<br >petioles to reach the trunk. He saw Tradd s disheveled raven-colored<br >hair, her skirts hitched up, her tender knees twined around the trunk,<br >as once, on his dare, she d humped down the tree, monkey-style. The<br >h<br ><br >
Family Passions 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书