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Closer than David & Jonathan, closer than Manuel & Esteban, were Daisy & Daphne. Closer because their relationship was not that of equals: Daisy admired from the depths of her self-disgust, Daphne tolerated from the fastnesses of her self-confidence. And because Daisy's inferiority complex cowered behind Daphne's blithe assurance, Daphne was bound the closer by protective responsibility for the girl she despised...
...course, he proposed marriage to Daphne, thus precipitating between her and Daisy an emotional crisis, composed not, as one might have thought, of jealousy or renunciation, but of the fears and vacillating doubts of Daisy's soul. Closer indeed than David & Jonathan, closer even than Manuel & Esteban, for on page 143 it comes out, with cleverly achieved unexpectedness, that Daisy and Daphne are one and the same. And Daisy hopes that it will always be as Daphne that she appears-particularly to Raymond...
...BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY- Thornton Wilder-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). "On Friday noon, July the 20th, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below." The five people were: The Marquesa de Montemayor and Pepita, her companion, Esteban, the brother of Manuel, Uncle Pio, and Don Jaime the son of the actress whom he had loved and made famous. Now why had a bridge upon whose miraculous high path everyone in Peru had stepped at one time or another postponed its decay to include these particular people in its destruction...
...Pointed omission to kneel when all present knelt except himself while King Alfonso XIII was blessed by His Eminence Eustochio Cardinal Ilundain y Esteban, Archbishop of Seville. Edward, conscious that the Church of England is Protestant, stood fumbling nervously with his hat throughout the ceremony...
...each his scarlet biretta-the four-cornered, pinched-top cap-then heard their oaths to defend conscientiously the papal bulls concerning nonalienation of the possessions of the Roman Church, nepotism, papal elections, and cardinalitial dignity. Last May 30, two Spanish prelates were elevated to the scarlet: Eustachio Ilundain y Esteban, Archbishop of Seville, and Vincenzo Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada. The day before Cardinal Hayes' arrival, before an immense throng of royalty, nobility, ambassadors and Holy Year pilgrims packed in the great basilica of St. Peter's, the five new cardinals heard Pius XI order from...