[Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable]@TWC D-Link bookSimon Called Peter CHAPTER VIII 36/62
She chose the wine, and after _dejeuner_ sat with her elbows on the table, puffing at a cigarette, her brown eyes alight with mischief, apparently without a thought for to-morrow. "Oh, I say," she said, "do look at that party in the corner.
The old Major's well away, and the girl'll have a job to keep him in hand, I wonder where they're from? Rouen, perhaps; there was a car at the door. What do you think of the girl ?" Peter glanced back.
"No better than she ought to be," he said. "No, I don't suppose so, but they are gay, these French girls.
I don't wonder men like them.
And they have a hard time.
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