Isaac the Millionaire was in love. “I have met a lady,” he said, “of the first degree.”
The chorus of afternoon prayer ground to a discontinuous mutter. There was turbulence, then an anxious calm. A bench scraped, a book fell, and Old Man Medisky jumped to bring it to his lips in atonement.
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Martha, from Premières pages
By Yves Navarre, translated by Howard Girven
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