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Lawyer Page sometimes thinks of his old home town as a former mistress-"a sunny-tempered, laughing girl who never wore a girdle." But as he re-explores the town's anatomy, the memory is proved wrong: a girdle is there, all right-all the stays and bones of Southern convention, the shoulder straps of prejudice, and only rarely the snapped garter of gaiety...
...French authorities told Serge to leave the country because of his shady financial transactions. Serge had another version: Premier Pierre Laval, he said, suspected Rubinstein of dallying with his mistress, a French marquise, and deported him in a fit of jealousy. Two years before his expulsion, he had got hold of operating control of the Chosen Corp., a British company which owned some Korean gold mines. It was a typically slippery operation. The company was in the midst of a management scandal (the director ultimately went off to Wormwood Scrubs prison), and the stock was momentarily cheap. Before Serge made...
...opposite: she goes half crazy every time she thinks that one day death will ring down her curtain. But, reflects Regina, if Fosca cannot die, no more, in a way, can I, because I shall live on in his memory eternally. So Regina becomes Count Fosca's mistress and makes him tell her his life story. It takes ages...
...Bella Spewack) takes place in the rococo sunroom of a music impresario. Phones blare, tempers explode, rival artists snarl and spit. Then a lady music teacher arrives with a child prodigy to make things really hum. Soon she is rumored to be a famous pianist's discarded mistress and the prodigy their illegitimate son. With the child's real father suspecting his wife, and a lady cellist buzzing with sex. it all suggests a game of musical sofas...
...shirt. A year later, Gauguin took off for Paris with one child, leaving his wife and the other children behind. "When my sabots echo on the granite," he said, "I hear the sound, dull and strong, that I'm looking for in painting." Thanks to the generous mistress of a Breton pension, Gauguin painted in peace on a full belly. Restlessly driven back to Paris and semi-starvation, the man who had once speculated so brilliantly on the stock exchange was now looking for common stock in El Dorado...