la meilleure amie d’une autre jeune femme, mariée celle-là, s’en vient vivre avec eux, et puis, à son insu, en toute innocence, mais sans merci, entreprend d’épouser le mari. Quand ce dernier est un écrivain occupé une bonne partie de la journée à une tâche difficile, et n’est donc pas pour sa femme un compagnon ou un partenaire digne de ce nom, l’

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‘Maybe he was a millionaire,’ Steve says. ‘Did he look flush?’ ‘Not that I noticed. Like I said: nothing special.’ ‘What would a millionaire be doing in a kip like this?’ the old lad demands. ‘Looking for a proper pint,’ the barman says with dignity. ‘If he’d’ve found one, he’d’ve come back.’ ‘Has he been?’ Steve asks. ‘No. Only saw either of them

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In a prime spot just across the yellow-tape road from the lemon trees, he tended his own dark grove of bookshelves, and beside them a field of legal boxes, which held thousands of menus from restaurants famous and obscure. Whenever I passed Horace’s collection, there was someone flipping through the menus with the furious intensity of a DJ digging

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He cuts off a bimbo box—a family minivan—veers past the Buy ’n’ Fly that is next door, and pulls into CosaNostra Pizza #3569. Those big fat contact patches complain, squeal a little bit, but they hold on to the patented Fairlanes, Inc. high-traction pavement and guide him into the chute. No other Deliverators are waiting in the chute. That is good,

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