Word: chazard
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...twenty-eight. Returning home unexpectedly one afternoon I found my brother and my fiancee asleep together in my bed... I left the apartment without waking them and started to walk downstairs, meaning to think the matter over in the street. But on the next landing, the fifth, I encountered Chazard, a quarrelsome man who lived below us and was always complaining of the noise that went on over his head...
...page does not end until he heaves Chazard over the balcony, spends two years in prison for the impassioned murder, and on the morning he is released runs into a girl he used to know. The girl, Tatania Bouvillon, invites him to live with her; he declines, breaks his engagement, but moves in with his brother and former financee, Valeric. Shortly afterwards he goes to work for an immense corporation called S.B.H., where he learns that his patron, the S.B.H. Chairman Lormier, is a grotesquely arrogant swindler trying perpetually to outwit the Managing Director Hermelin. Loyalty and coincidence commit...
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