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The Heart of a Woman
Emma Orczy
The Heart of a Woman
Emma Orczy
You don't suppose for a moment, I hope, that a girl like Louisa would allow her mind todwell on such horrors. Mysterious crimes in strange cities-and in London, too, for amatter of that-are, alas! of far too frequent occurrence to be quite as startling as theyshould be. A day or two later, Louisa Harris and her aunt, Lady Ryder, crossed over to England. Theyhad spent five weeks in Italy and one in Brussels, not with a view to dreaming over thebeauties of the Italian Lakes, or over the art treasures collected in the museums of Brussels, but because Lady Ryder had had a bronchial catarrh which she could not shake off and soher doctor had ordered her a thorough change. Bellaggio was selected, and Louisaaccompanied her. They stayed at the best hotels both in Bellaggio and in Brussels, whereLady Ryder had several friends whom she wished to visit before she went home. Nothing whatever happened that should not have happened; everything was orderly andwell managed; the courier and the maid saw to tickets and to luggage, to hotel rooms andsleeping compartments. It was obviously their mission in life to see that nothing untowardor unexpected happened, but only the obvious. It was clearly not their fault that Miss Harris had seen a cab in which an unknown manhappened to have been murdered. Louisa, with a view to preventing her aunt from going to sleep after dinner and therebyspoiling her night's rest, had told her of the incident which she had witnessed in theBoulevard Waterloo, and Lady Ryder was genuinely shocked. She vaguely felt that her niecehad done something unladylike and odd, which was so unlike Louisa. The latter had amused herself by scanning a number of English papers in order to find outwhat was said in London about that strange crime, which she had almost witnessed-theman stabbed through the neck, from ear to ear, and the wound so small it might have beendone with a skewer. But, with characteristic indifference, London paid but little heed to themysterious dramas of a sister city. A brief account of the gruesome discovery-a figurativeshrug of the shoulders as to the incompetence of the Belgian police, who held neither a clueto the perpetrator of the crime nor to the identity of the victim. Just a stranger-an idler. Brussels was full of strangers just now. His nationality? who knows? His individuality?there seemed no one to care. The police were active no doubt, but so far they haddiscovered nothing
Media | Książki Paperback Book (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem) |
Wydane | 15 listopada 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798565272406 |
Wydawcy | Independently Published |
Strony | 214 |
Wymiary | 216 × 280 × 11 mm · 508 g |
Język | English |
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