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wants "to disappear for an hour or so on my own. Hush...
don't giggle. . . . You will have adventures in my name,
dear Toto, while I am gone." "Darling, of course," is
Toto's reply (B, p. 199)* Because all participants in
Carnival regularly wear black capes and hoods, which
envelop and disguise most features, only by the hands
can an individual be recognized. Thus Justine's ring
identifies the wearer as Justine insomuch as anyone can
observe (B, p. 191). Promising to cooperate, Toto
disappears into the crowd.
Later in the evening, under a pile of coats, Toto is
found dead.
^Toto de Brunei was discovered, still warm
in his velvet domino, with his paws raised like
two neat little cutlets, in the attitude of a
dog which had rolled over to have its belly
scratched. He was buried deep in the drift of
coats. One hand had half-tried to move towards
the fatal temple but the impulse had been cut
off at the source before the action was complete,
and it had stayed there raised a little higher
than the other, as if wielding an invisible baton.
The hatpin from Pombal's picture hat had been
driven sideways into his head with terrific force,
pinning him like a moth into his velvet headpiece.
Athena had been making love to Jacques while she
was literally lying upon his body—a fact which
would under normal circumstances have delighted
him thoroughly. But he was dead, le pauvre Toto,
and what is more he was still wearing the ring
of my lover. "Justice!" (B, p. 211)
Earlier in the evening, during her love-making with
Jacques, Athena had thought she had heard a voice
crying "Justice... Justice" (B, p. 205).
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Fordham, Glenn Wayne, Jr. The Psychological Orientation Towards Growth in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet", dissertation, May 1981; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330626/m1/92/?q=war: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .