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that would come to ... three , carry seven , six |
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" Clacton's . " " Well , I 'm damned . " " Now , let me see , |
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you say your husband earns about ... yes , |
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nines are fifty four - of course we 'd have to |
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Our lawyers - " " Who are your lawyers ? " |
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have some sort of proof , you know , it 's very |
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Yes . I 'm afraid we couldn't raise this loan to more |
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before the green belt , lovely and modern , you know . |
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Grimstead for three thousand , that 's where I live , just |
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house built earlier than 1918 . " |
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could get quite a nice little semi-detached house in |
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I forgot to tell you , we don't usually lend any |
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than three thousand three fifty at the most . Now you |
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and some in West Hampstead for four two fifty , |
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had gone , " we can get three thousand three fifty , |
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a bit . I 'm sure you could raise the rest from |
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and write them later . I 've got a bit owing too . |
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perhaps a little more if we can cheat your earnings |
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Now , I saw some flats in Hendon for four thou , |
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" You see , " she propounded to Rupert after her last patient |
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our own bathroom . |
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one of your publishers , get two books commissioned |
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two beds , two reception , k. and b. , just think , |
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Much more spacious than that poky little cottage , |
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reception room was too small when divided |
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and too big when not . |
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which wasn't a bit practical really , the |
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Vence is a sober spot , half way between small |
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tree-heavy square you can sit in the autumn |
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sip pastis and read the local newspapers . |
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sunshine , still burning like a half-cooled iron , |
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town and village , pigeon grey , sly with arches , and |
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linked by a whispering plot of fountains . In the main |
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had firmly closed the door in our noses . |
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hunting for furnished rooms , and had given up , when an |
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is a smart but modest bar called Pierre's Bar . For one |
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elderly lady , the owner of a residence called the Poet's Nest , |
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of our arrival it was throwing huge over-ripe verbal |
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tomatoes at General de Gaulle . One side of this square |
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day , with the help of the Syndicat d'Initiative , we had been |
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One called La Patriote is Communist , and at the time |
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she decided Pierre would solve our problems . This |
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yellow as lemon peel , wrestling with some gnawing rat |
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a good address . ' Now , after a woman's radar look , |
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accumulation of money . |
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was true , Pierre was a true Provenc*?6al , thin and |
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of an illness , man of all trades , married to a commanding |
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lady who loved small talk and the discreet |
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' It is a pity , ' said Mart , ' because it would have been |
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month . ' Yes , ' we said immediately , even before viewing . |
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elderly , well-off , artistic , who , you felt , had made a hard |
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We went in . There were a few people in the bar , |
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Pierre , ' and all mod cons . ' The price was 16,000 francs a |
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bargain for giving up . ' I have furnished rooms , ' said |
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We were shown around by Pierre . |
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We were woken up twice about dawn by a soft |
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first night's sleeping was like a long convalescence . |
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The flat was on the third floor ; two rooms ; soft Provenc*? |
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6al view ; good intimate furnishing and colour ; running |
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hot water from Butagas installation for washing-up , |
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eruption of turtle-doves . |
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basin and bidet ; own private , modern lavatory . The |
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shame . |
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curling white breath of the mountains . The land looked |
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' turtledove ' . Pierre Turtledove . When we woke up properly it |
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looked out of the windows at the weeping trees and the |
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This was strange , even magic , because the owner's |
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name was Pierre Tortorolo which , in Nicoison Italian means |
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like a beaten woman and the turtle-doves cried her |
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was raining , an even more hopeless rain than London , and we |
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We had a morning at Pierre's . He talked about people . |
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immolated on a nearby roof top , the other pair copulating . |
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The Lover of Lady Chatterly . |
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Four of them were flattened on the window sills , two |
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four years . During this period he wrote a book , |
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There they were , in fact , below us , eight of them . |
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Marc Chagall used to live here and an Englishman named |
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Lawrence . He was here , near the railway station , three or |
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sat in the square reading the Patriote . |
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sun came out ; Mart went shopping ; I |
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him , he was one of the crowd . The |
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reading . Lawrence died in this very place . |
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No , he hadn't read it ; Madame did all the |
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again . No , he couldn't really remember |
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He used to come to Pierre's Bar again and |
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There was a front-page rear-attack on de |
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ingenious , but mad film director of the |
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Raphael . All the murders were well documented |
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Thirties . |
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the Mediterranean between Corsica and St |
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Gaulle , and the rest of the paper was given up |
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to murders , apart for an outcry against a |
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and had the air of being written by an |
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proposal to drop radio-active material into |
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Monsieur H , for instance , had been clubbed and |
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Then again , Monsieur V , owing to family |
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before the father-in-law telephoned the police . |
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father-in-law , after muddling up some sheep |
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They mostly occurred in lonely farm-houses . |
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while the worse for drink . The family |