Fantômas

Fantômas

Hurrying to the fireplace, the Marquise de Langrune took a large log from a basket and flung it on to the glowing embers on the hearth; the log crackled and shed a brilliant light over the whole room; the guests of the Marquise instinctively drew near to the fire. During the ten consecutive months she spent every year at her chteau of Beaulieu, on the outskirts of Corrze, that picturesque district bounded by the Dordogne, it had been the immemorial custom of the Marquise de Langrune to entertain a few of her personal friends in the neighbourhood to dinner every Wednesday, thereby obtaining a little pleasant relief from her loneliness and keeping up some contact with the world. On this particular winter evening the good lady's guests included several habitus: President Bonnet, a retired magistrate who had withdrawn to his small property at Saint-Jaury, in the[2] suburbs of Brives, and the Abb Sicot, who was the parish priest. A more occasional friend was also there, the Baronne de Vibray, a young and wealthy widow, a typical woman of the world who spent the greater part of her life either in motoring, or in the most exclusive drawing-rooms of Paris, or at the most fashionable watering-places. But when the Baronne de Vibray put herself out to grass, as she racily phrased it, and spent a few weeks at Querelles, her estate close to the chteau of Beaulieu, nothing pleased her better than to take her place again in the delightful company of the Marquise de Langrune and her friends. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 27794
Author: Allain, Marcel
Release Date: Jan 13, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Souvestre, Pierre, 1874-1914


Translator: Metcalfe, Cranstoun