More Than a Mistress/no Man's Mistress (2011)
“He shot out of bed rather as if a spring had broken through the mattress, catapulted him in an upward arc, and brought him down flat on his feet beside the bed.
“The devil!” he exclaimed, running the fingers of one hand through his disheveled hair. “What in thunder?” He had no idea what had disturbed him. For the moment he could not even recall where he was.
And then the raucous noise was repeated. He strode across to the open window, flung back the curtains, and thrust out his head. Dawn was t...he merest smudge of gray on the eastern horizon. He shivered in the predawn chill and for once wished he wore a nightshirt to bed. There it was, he saw as he glared downward, strutting along the terrace before the house as if it owned the universe.
A cockerel!
“Go to the devil!” Ferdinand instructed it, and the bird, startled out of its arrogant complacency, scuttled halfway along the terrace before recovering its dignity and crowing again.
Cock-a-doodle-doooo.
Ferdinand in his turn scuttled back to bed after closing both the window and the curtains.MoreLess
“The devil!” he exclaimed, running the fingers of one hand through his disheveled hair. “What in thunder?” He had no idea what had disturbed him. For the moment he could not even recall where he was.
And then the raucous noise was repeated. He strode across to the open window, flung back the curtains, and thrust out his head. Dawn was t...he merest smudge of gray on the eastern horizon. He shivered in the predawn chill and for once wished he wore a nightshirt to bed. There it was, he saw as he glared downward, strutting along the terrace before the house as if it owned the universe.
A cockerel!
“Go to the devil!” Ferdinand instructed it, and the bird, startled out of its arrogant complacency, scuttled halfway along the terrace before recovering its dignity and crowing again.
Cock-a-doodle-doooo.
Ferdinand in his turn scuttled back to bed after closing both the window and the curtains.MoreLess
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