THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick. When the medical advisers of a lady who has reached seventy years of age recommend the mild climate of the South of France, they mean in plain language that they have arrived at the end of their resources. Her ladyship gave the mild climate a fair trial, and then decided (as she herself expressed it) to "die at home." Traveling slowly, she had reached Paris at the date when I last heard of her. It was then the beginning of November. A week later, I met with her nephew, Lewis Romayne, at the club. "What brings you to London at this time of year?" I asked. "The fatality that pursues me," he answered grimly. "I am one of the unluckiest men living."

Media	Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven	15 juni 2007
ISBN13	9781421843117
Uitgevers	1st World Library - Literary Society
Pagina's	388
Afmetingen	140 × 216 × 22 mm · 489 g
Taal en grammatica	Engels
Deelnemer	1stworld Library

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