The Red Neighbour - Couverture rigide

Eccott, W J

 
9781346560359: The Red Neighbour

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Qaston, Marquis de Polignac, was still asleep. But for the wooden blinds, all but closed at the casements, the bedroom had been flooded with the light of a Paris summer morning. The Marquise, Marie Qabrielle, in her white night-robe, moved with noiseless step to interpose a screen between the sleeper and the windows, and then sat down upon the bedstep, one arm half-encircling his pillow, to gaze upon his face with tender solicitude. In the half-lights it acquired a pallor and the hollows below his eyes a purole tint, indicative of strenuous days and arduous nights spent in too rijpd succession in the service of the War Department oi his Majesty, Louis Quatorze. For the many life is played out before a very few set scenes of furniture and trappings, which will, in various new conjunctions, form, the present liferenters gone, backgrounds for other lives, figuring the whiles between in the terse and sordid descriptive phrases of an auctioneers
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