Author: MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELLPublisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
ON a certain day in June, 1901, a cataclysm occurred in the quiet apartment of Mademoiselle Céleste Bouchard, in the Rue Clarisse, the quietest street in the quietest part of Paris. This cataclysm consisted of the simultaneous departure, or rather the levanting, of the entire masculine element in the excellent old lady’s household. And this masculine element had been so admirably trained! Monsieur Paul Bouchard, in particular, ten years his sister’s junior, was reckoned a model man. Mademoiselle could truly say that during Monsieur Bouchard’s fifty-four years of life he had never, until then, given her a moment’s anxiety. All the elderly ladies of the[2] Bouchards’ acquaintance pointed with admiration to Monsieur Paul...FROM THE BOOKS.
