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Mr Justice Maxell

Mr Justice Maxell

Wallace, Edgar

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1973854147
ISBN13: 9781973854142
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 26 2017
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
John Maxell sat outside the Continental Cafe, in the condition of bodily content which a good dinner induces. Mental content should have accompanied such a condition, but even the memory of a perfect dinner could not wholly obliterate a certain uneasiness of mind. He had been uneasy when he came to Tangier, and his journey through France and Spain had been accompanied by certain apprehensions and doubts which Cartwright had by no means dispelled. Rather, by his jovial evasions, his cheery optimism, and at times his irritable outbreaks of temper, he had given the eminent King's Counsel further cause for disquiet. Cartwright sat at the other side of the table, and was unusually quiet. This was a circumstance which was by no means displeasing to Maxell, for the night was not conducive to talk. There are in North Africa many nights like this, when one wishes to sit in dead silence and let thought take its own course, unchecked and untrammelled;

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