A Girl Made of Dust. Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

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СКАЧАТЬ – but please …’ As Papi closed it, folded it in half and offered it to her, the shiny bag unflapped, a shiny purse came out and a single lira was drawn from inside.

      The breath was coming hard out of Naji's nostrils.

      ‘No, no.’ Papi held out a hand to stop her.

      ‘Why not?’ The brown note waved about as she spoke. ‘It's your paper and I want to buy it. Times are not so easy now. Why be embarrassed?’

      Beside me, Naji's face flushed to a deep red.

      ‘No. Please.’ Papi sank down a little into the counter. ‘You should be ashamed of yourself. Wallaow.’ He clicked his tongue.

      She paused with the note still pinched between her fingers, then nodding, took the paper and left.

      No one moved. We stared at Papi and he stared back at us. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Naji's mouth working as if he wanted to speak, shout, or maybe cry, but he did none of those things.

      Papi continued to stare at us, and his eyes were two deep wells of misery. Then Naji's heel scuffed the floor as he turned and left.

      For the next quarter of an hour Papi paced, frowning and muttering to himself. Then he phoned Mami. ‘I can't bear it any more,’ he said, so she came up to tend the shop for the rest of the morning.

      ‘My legs are hurting again,’ I complained after Papi had left.

      ‘It's only muscle cramps. You're growing up, that's all.’

      I rubbed my calves. ‘Then I don't want to. It's painful being stretched big. Besides, I'll have to be worried all the time like Teta, or sit all the time like Papi, or clean all the time like you, or be angry like Naji.’

      Footsteps approached the door and Mami got to her feet with a tight customer-smile. But it wasn't a customer. Our doctor's daughter, Juhaina, had stopped off before when Mami was here, and she looked in now.

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