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The Laughing Girl

The Laughing Girl

Chambers, Robert W.

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1544185391
ISBN13: 9781544185392
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 28 2017
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
... After another moment's hesitation I handed Smith his suit-case, picked up my own, and descended from the Flivver. The Swiss officer at the wheel, Captain Schey, and the Swiss officer of Gendarmerie beside him, Major Schoot, remained heavily uninterested in the proceedings. To think of nothing is bovine; to think of nothing at all, and do that thinking in German, is porcine. I inspected their stolid features: no glimmer of human intelligence illuminated them. Their complexions reminded me of that moist pink hue which characterizes a freshly cut boiled ham. Smith leisurely examined the buildings and their surroundings, including the red-headed girl, and I saw him shrug his shoulders. He was right; it was a silly situation and a ridiculous property for a New Yorker to inherit. And the longer I surveyed my new property the more worried I became. I said in English to Major Schoot, one of the ample, pig-pink gentlemen in eye-glasses and the uniform of the Swiss Gendarmerie: So this is Schwindlewald, is it?...

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