Word: costadot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...About six years ago, Mme Becker's husband died-she said of cancer-leaving a thriving lumberyard. She quickly ran the business into the ground, looked around for a new husband to support her. One M. Costadot. who was unfortunately a married man, struck her fancy. One evening, as they chatted pleasantly about a film they had just seen. Widow Becker brewed tea for Mme Costadot. She died...
...Widower Costadot lived with Widow Becker for a year, but could never make up his mind to marry her. When he turned her out she was hard up for cash, so she arranged to sell to a M. Guichner a dressmaking business, in which she had dabbled, for 10,000 francs. She did not tell him it had failed for 400,000 francs. When he objected, she brewed tea. He survived...
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