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Show -16- He got up to open the gate as his friend and his family descended the steps? He shook hands with his friend; embraced the wife, and Invited them in? where they greeted his wife and sister-in-law? The children? a boy and a girl; ran to the pool? knelt down? and dipped their fingers in the water? "Bee! It's cold!" the boy said? disappointed. "What happened to your pool?" the wife asked? seeing the gray film that covered the bottom? "It's probably a broken filter? I don't know what else," the Professor told her? He asked them if they cared for a drink? and they sead they did? The Professor went upstairs into the house to fetch more glasses? Hearing the accents of his friends' speech? he recalled the time in the Midwest? when he had overheard two Freshman girls discussing their teachers? "I've got one of the cutest English teachers?" one of them said? "You ought to hear him read Shakespeare - in a Brooklyn accent?" I. His friend had met his wife; who was from the Bronx, at Brooklyn College? Both had spoken originally in the broad accents of their origins? but lime and absence had softened? if not obliterated?' their dialects? When the Professor returned? they were chatting amiably with his wiffc and her sister? mostly asking the Professor's wife about their trip? The Professor poured them drinks, then |
