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\nhttps://archive.org/details/custardheart0000park  \nSHEFELTACZYSOLDARITYNTH THE BG  \nMPANYOFTFEVOLUNTARY  \nDEAD.  \nDOROTHY PARKER  \nBorn I893,Long Branch,New Jersey,USADied I967,New York City,New York State,USA  \nAll stories taken from The Collected Dorothy Parker,firstpublished in I944 as The Portable Dorothy Parker  \nPARKER IN PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICSThe Collected Dorothy Parker  \nDOROTHY PARKER  \n# The Custard Heart\n\nPENGUIN CLASSICS  \nUK |USA |Canada |Ireland |AustraliaIndia |New Zealand |South Africa  \nPenguin Books is part of the Penguin Random House groupof companies whose addresses can be found atglobal.penguinrandomhouse.com.  \nPenguin  \nRandom HouseUK  \nThis selection first published 20180OI  \nCopyright CDorothy Parker,I944Copyright Crenewed by Lillian Hellman,I972  \nThe moral rights of the author have been asserted  \nAll rights reserved  \nSet in I0.25/12.75 pt Dante MT StdTypeset byJouve(UK),Milton KeynesPrinted in Great Britain by Clays Ltd,St Ives plc  \nISBN:978---24I-33958-9  \nwww.greenpenguin.couk  \n\n| MIX  \u003Cbr>Paper from  \u003Cbr>responsible sources  \u003Cbr>FSC  \u003Cbr>FSCC018179  \u003Cbr>wwcog   |\n| --- |\n\nPenguin Random House is commicted to asustainable future for our business,our readersand our planet.This book is made from ForestStewardship Council\"certihed paper.  \nContents  \nThe Custard HeartBig BlondeYou Were Perfectly Fine  \nI  \nI3  \n46  \n# The Custard Heart\n\nNo living eye,of human being or caged wild beast or dear;domestic animal,had beheld Mrs Lanier when she was notbeing wistful.She was dedicated to wistfulness,as lesser artiststo words and paint and marble.Mrs Lanier was not of thelesser;she was of the true.Surely the eternal example ofthe true artist is Dickens's actor who blacked himself all overto play Othello.Itis safe to assume that Mrs Lanier was wistfulin her bathroom,and slumbered soft in wistfulness throughthe dark and secret night.  \nIf nothing should happen to the portrait of her by Sir JamesWeir,there she will stand,wistful for the ages.He has shownher at her full length,allin yellows,the delicately heaped curls,the slender,arched feet like elegant bananas,the shiningstretch of the evening gown;Mrs Lanier habitually wore whitein the evening,but white is the devil's own hue to paint,andcould a man be expected to spend his entire six weeks in theStates on the execution of a single commission?Wistfulnessrests,immortal,in the eyes dark with sad hope,in the pleadingmouth,the droop of the little head on the sweet long neck,bowed as if in submission to the three ropes of Lanier pearls.It is true that,when the portrait was exhibited,one critic  \nDorothy Parker  \nexpressed in print his puzzlement as to what a woman whoowned such pearls had tobe wistful about;but that was doubt-less because he had sold his saffron-colored soul for a fewpennies to the proprietor of a rival gallery.Certainly,no mancould touch Sir James on pearls.Each one is as distinct,as individual as is each little soldier's face in a Meissonierbattle scene.  \nFor a time,with the sitter's obligation to resemble the por-trait,Mrs Lanier wore yellow of evenings.She had gowns ofvelvet like poured country cream and satin with the lacquerof buttercups and chiffon that spiraled about her like goldensmoke.She wore them,and listened in shy surprise to theresulting comparisons to daffodils,and butterflies in the sun-shine,and such;but she knew.  \nIt just isn't me,'she sighed at last,and returned to her lilydraperies.Picasso had his blue period,and Mrs Lanier heryellow one.They both knew when to stop.  \nIn the afternoons,Mrs Lanier wore black,thin and fragrant,with the great pearls weeping on her breast.What her attirewas by morning,only Gwennie,the maid who brought herbreakfast tray,could know;but it must,of course,have beenexquisite.Mr Lanier-certainly there was a Mr Lanier;he hadeven been seen-stole past her door on his way out to 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