Excerpt from Two Banks of the Seine: Les Deux Rives
She was suffering. As the wind bit her face, it seemed to her that something icy was gripping her heart. She remembered that other one - the man she had once lost - the runaway and defaulting hance, Albert Dastarac. Ten years had passed since then.
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