She Fell Among Thieves (2012)
“I did not look forward to my visit, but I could not sleep at Anise, while Mansel was fighting with beasts two hundred miles off.
Bell was not with me. I had left him to play armed guard to Jenny and Jill. Carson was in touch with his master – ‘somewhere in France’.
If Mansel knew of my coming, he had not heard it from me: but Vanity Fair might have told him – I had telegraphed from Bayonne.
For my return to Jezreel I had good excuse.
First, I had been invited: at my hotel at Bayonne I had found... a week-old letter from Vanity Fair. …Jezreel is more dull than before, so please repeat your visit, as soon as you tire of Spain… Secondly, I had heard from Titus – a letter very much to the point. Dear Bill, I remember Gaston de Rachel, and so does Blanche. His looks were dead against him, but he proved to be a debonair cove whom everyone liked. He was going abroad to seek a valuable wife. He was the sort of fellow who never has any money, but never sinks lower than the Ritz.MoreLess
Bell was not with me. I had left him to play armed guard to Jenny and Jill. Carson was in touch with his master – ‘somewhere in France’.
If Mansel knew of my coming, he had not heard it from me: but Vanity Fair might have told him – I had telegraphed from Bayonne.
For my return to Jezreel I had good excuse.
First, I had been invited: at my hotel at Bayonne I had found... a week-old letter from Vanity Fair. …Jezreel is more dull than before, so please repeat your visit, as soon as you tire of Spain… Secondly, I had heard from Titus – a letter very much to the point. Dear Bill, I remember Gaston de Rachel, and so does Blanche. His looks were dead against him, but he proved to be a debonair cove whom everyone liked. He was going abroad to seek a valuable wife. He was the sort of fellow who never has any money, but never sinks lower than the Ritz.MoreLess
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