lizzie'sadieux

Updated: June 4, 2025

Lizzie'sadieux to Deering had been made on a rainy afternoon in the damp corridors of the Aquarium at the Trocadero. She could not receive him at her own pension. That a teacher should bevisited by the father of a pupil, especially when that father wasstill, as Madame Clopin said, si bien, was against that lady's austere Helvetian code.

Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts