The game . like this. THE GAME 27 sight of her shocked faceo I dont meanwater an soap, but look there. His handclosed reverently but firmly on her arm. Soft, youre all soft,all over. Not like , feel this. He pressed the endsof her fingers into hishard arm-muscles untilshe winced from thehurt. Hard all over, justlike that, he went on. Now thats what I callclean. Every bit offlesh an blood an mus-cle is clean right downto the bones — and theyre clean, too. Nosoap and water only on the skin, butclean all the way in. I tell you it feels. 28 THE GAME clean. It knows its clean itself. WhenI
The game . like this. THE GAME 27 sight of her shocked faceo I dont meanwater an soap, but look there. His handclosed reverently but firmly on her arm. Soft, youre all soft,all over. Not like , feel this. He pressed the endsof her fingers into hishard arm-muscles untilshe winced from thehurt. Hard all over, justlike that, he went on. Now thats what I callclean. Every bit offlesh an blood an mus-cle is clean right downto the bones — and theyre clean, too. Nosoap and water only on the skin, butclean all the way in. I tell you it feels. 28 THE GAME clean. It knows its clean itself. WhenI wake up in the morning an go to work,every drop of blood and bit of meat isshouting right out that it is clean. Oh, Itell you — He paused with swift awkwardness, againconfounded by his unwonted flow of in his life had he been stirred tosuch utterance, and never in his life hadthere been cause to be so stirred. For itwas the Game that had been questioned,its verity and worth, the Game itself, thebiggest thing in the world — or what hadbeen the biggest thing in the world untilthat chance afternoon and that chance pur-chase in Silversteins candy store, whenGenevieve loomed suddenly colossal in hislife, overshadowing all other things. Hewas beginning to see, though vaguely, thesharp conflict between woman and career. THE GAME 29 between a mans work in the world andwomans need of the man. But he was not
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