The Devil Stone

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Author: Beatrice Heron-Maxwell ISBN: 9781465546319
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Beatrice Heron-Maxwell
ISBN: 9781465546319
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English
It was in the dusky, tepid twilight of a particularly hot, vaporous, drowsy day at Aix-les-bains, in Savoy, that I passed through the hotel garden, and prepared to take a languid stroll through the streets of the little town. I was tired of having nothing to do and no one to talk to; the other people staying at the Hotel de l’Europe were mostly foreigners, and, apart from that, entirely uninteresting; and as to my father, he was almost a nonentity to me at present, till his “course” was completed. From early morn to dewy eve he was immersed in the waters, either outwardly or inwardly, or both; and beyond occasional glimpses of him, arrayed in a costume resembling that of an Arab sheikh, being conveyed in pomp and a sedan chair to or from the baths, I was, figuratively speaking, an orphan until table d’ hôte. As I crossed the verandah some one rose from a long chair, and, throwing his book down, said, “Where are you going, Miss Durant? May I come too?” “If you like,” I answered, politely but indifferently; “I am only going to look for spoons.” “For
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It was in the dusky, tepid twilight of a particularly hot, vaporous, drowsy day at Aix-les-bains, in Savoy, that I passed through the hotel garden, and prepared to take a languid stroll through the streets of the little town. I was tired of having nothing to do and no one to talk to; the other people staying at the Hotel de l’Europe were mostly foreigners, and, apart from that, entirely uninteresting; and as to my father, he was almost a nonentity to me at present, till his “course” was completed. From early morn to dewy eve he was immersed in the waters, either outwardly or inwardly, or both; and beyond occasional glimpses of him, arrayed in a costume resembling that of an Arab sheikh, being conveyed in pomp and a sedan chair to or from the baths, I was, figuratively speaking, an orphan until table d’ hôte. As I crossed the verandah some one rose from a long chair, and, throwing his book down, said, “Where are you going, Miss Durant? May I come too?” “If you like,” I answered, politely but indifferently; “I am only going to look for spoons.” “For

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