a shadow

“‘Adios,’ she added in Spanish, ‘I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.’
    ‘Thank you.’
    ‘Sank you.’
    ‘Not sank you, Señora Gregorio, thank you.’
    ‘Sank you.’”

—Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, 1947.

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