The Rock Pool" ... satire of the British upper class, a smug young literary man from Oxford joins an international group of artists and writers on the French Riviera, intending to study them as if they were aquatic organisms in a pool--with unexpected results."--Goodreads |
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Page 50
... francs and wrote down fifty . " Je n'aime pas faire le détective , " hissed the English dancer , “ mais quelqu'un a fait une erreur de trente francs . Je repasserai le petit pot bleu à tout le monde pour le rectifier . " Several hundred ...
... francs and wrote down fifty . " Je n'aime pas faire le détective , " hissed the English dancer , “ mais quelqu'un a fait une erreur de trente francs . Je repasserai le petit pot bleu à tout le monde pour le rectifier . " Several hundred ...
Page 106
... francs . There was no sound but the driver's breathing and the tick of the machine , like an invisible auctioneer . Two hundred and seven francs fifty . Two hundred and eight . He ran down a path on the opposite side , through a glade ...
... francs . There was no sound but the driver's breathing and the tick of the machine , like an invisible auctioneer . Two hundred and seven francs fifty . Two hundred and eight . He ran down a path on the opposite side , through a glade ...
Page 125
... francs par personne . " " Cinquante francs ! C'est ridicule . C'est plus que le Ritz . " The princess stiffened . " Vous oubliez , mon- sieur , que je suis un cordon bleu , et puis , je ne fais pas des repas pour tout le monde . Ça ne ...
... francs par personne . " " Cinquante francs ! C'est ridicule . C'est plus que le Ritz . " The princess stiffened . " Vous oubliez , mon- sieur , que je suis un cordon bleu , et puis , je ne fais pas des repas pour tout le monde . Ça ne ...
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