Ernest Hemingway

THE GARDEN OF EDEN
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Chapter Fourteen

HE HAD 5LEPT about two hours when the daylight woke him and he looked at Catherine sleeping easily and looking happy in her sleep. He left her looking beautiful and young and unspoiled and then went into the bathroom and showered and put on a pair of shorts and walked barefoot through the garden to the room where he worked. The sky was washed clean after the wind and it was the fresh early morning of a new day toward the end of summer.

He started in again on the new and difficult story and worked attacking each thing that for years he had put off facing. He worked until nearly eleven o'clock and when he had finished for the day he shut up the room and went out and found the two girls playing chess at a table in the garden. They both looked fresh and young and as attractive as the wind-washed morning sky.

"She's beating me again," Catherine said. "How are you, David?"

The girl smiled at him very shyly.

They are the two loveliest girls I've ever seen, David thought. Now what will this day bring. "How are you two?" he said.

"We're very well," the girl said. "Did you have good luck?"

"It's all uphill but it's going well," he said.

"You haven't had any breakfast."

"It's too late for breakfast," David said.

"Nonsense," Catherine said. "You're wife of the day, Heiress. Make him eat breakfast."

"Wouldn't you like coffee and some fruit, David?" the girl asked. "You ought to eat something."

"I'll have some black coffee," David said.

"I'll bring you something," the girl said and went off into the hotel.

David sat by Catherine at the table and she put the chessmen and the board on a chair. She mussed his hair and said, "Have you forgotten you have a silver head like mine?"

"Yes," he said.

"It's going to be lighter and lighter and I'll be fairer and fairer and darker in the body too."

"That will be wonderful."

"Yes and I'm all over everything."

The pretty dark girl was bringing a tray with a small bowl rounded with caviar, a half lemon, a spoon and two pieces of toast and the young waiter had a bucket with a bottle of the Bellinger and a tray with three glasses.

"This will be good for David," the girl said. "Then we can go swimming before lunch."

After the swimming and lying in the sun on the beach and a big long lunch with more of the Bdllinger, Catherine said, "I'm really tired and sleepy."

"You swam a long way," David said. "We'll make a siesta."

"I want to really sleep," Catherine said.

"Do you feel well, Catherine?" the girl asked.

"Yes. just deadly sleepy."

"We'll put you to bed," David said. "Do you have a ther mometer?" he asked the girl.

"I'm sure I haven't any fever," Catherine said. "I just want to sleep for a long time."

When she was in bed the girl brought in the thermometer and David took Catherine's temperature and her pulse. The temperature was normal and the pulse was one hundred and five.

"The pulse is a little high," he said. "But I don't know your normal pulse."

"I don't either (...)

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