Children of Liberty. Paullina Simons
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Название: Children of Liberty
Автор: Paullina Simons
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
isbn: 9780007484034
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“We did that first,” Gina defended herself. “We did it quick. There haven’t been that many. Mostly toys. It’s not so hard, Salvo.”
“This is despicable and inappropriate.”
“What was most inappropriate,” said Pippa, fanning herself, sitting down, sweating, “was their banter, as if they were old friends!”
“Do Verity’s parents know this is what their devout Catholic daughter has been up to?” asked Mimoo.
“No one was up to anything, Mimoo!” Gina desperately didn’t want her new friend to get into trouble.
They went around like this, with Gina sticking up for Verity and pretending they were simply on a busy street in the middle of an afternoon in plain view of the whole town. No one in the house believed her, except for her mother—but only because Mimoo finally became too exhausted to fight. When Angela came home late from being out with friends, she defended Gina like a trooper, calling them all ridiculous, old-fashioned, stuck in the last century, and blowing all manner of things out of proportion.
“All right, Salvo, stop the puffery,” Gina said. “You see? I wasn’t doing anything wrong. Like Angela said. I was standing on a street corner—”
“Exactly!” yelled Salvo.
“Asking for signatures for a canal in Central America.”
“For what?”
“A canal!”
“Is that what they call it nowadays?”
“Mimoo!”
“It’s a ploy,” Salvo said. “It’s a ruse.”
“Salvo, you are crazy. Ben is going to be an engineer. He is going to build the greatest man-made wonder of the world. It’s incredible, Salvo …”
“You’re swallowing his lies hook, line and sinker, sister.”
“They’re not lies, Salvo. He’s going to build banana plantations in Costa Rica.”
“Banana plantations in Costa Rica? You said a canal in Panama?”
“How are the bananas going to get here, Mimoo?”
“Salvo is right, child,” Mimoo said. “I don’t like bananas and will not eat them.”
Gina wanted to yell in frustration at the unfairness of it all. They were pacing around the tiny living room. “Will you eat sugar?” she said, not hiding her impatience. “Coconuts? Chocolate? Ben will grow that too. And ship it here.”
“Gia, those two men are laughing at you right now,” said Salvo. “Have you looked at a map? They don’t need a canal to ship it here.”
“Now who’s the one being laughed at, Salvo?” said Gina. “They need one to ship it to Italy. To China. To France. In other words, to the rest of the world.”
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