Afterwards, and Other Stories. Ian Maclaren
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Ian Maclaren
Afterwards, and Other Stories
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664592873
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THE RIGHT HAND OF SAMUEL DODSON
AFTERWARDS
I
He received the telegram in a garden where he was gazing on a vision of blue, set in the fronds of a palm, and listening to the song of the fishers, as it floated across the bay.
“You look so utterly satisfied,” said his hostess, in the high, clear voice of Englishwomen, “that, I know you are tasting the luxury of a contrast. The Riviera is charming in December; imagine London, and Cannes, is Paradise.”
As he smiled assent in the grateful laziness of a hard-worked man, his mind was stung with the remembrance of a young wife swathed in the dreary fog, who, above all things, loved the open air and the shining of the sun.
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