He tried hard but they annoyed him, chiefly because they pushed his disciplined shoulders out of shape. Several times a day he would hop to the veranda wall, stand on his sound leg and exercise vigorously, and propel himself back to his long chair. He overflowed with energy and truth to tell, he ...
She’s done this solely for us, so we must make it worth her while.”The old senora’s small cackling laugh broke in. “Come and greet me, my child, before Marcus introduces you to my cousin. He is my young cousin, hardly more than seventy, and he has lived on Majorca since he married forty years ago...
If one is not in love the partner does not matter very much because there is the magic of the star-coined sea, the salt breeze, the perfume of massed flowers which are conveniently tethered where they will provide half-sheltered spaces for pausing and gazing, and the music blending with the wash ...
She left the ship after lunch, with Van Pickard, Frank Thornton and Avis Markman, but Avis and the middle-aged Frank were joining up with others, while Van decided to hire a taxi for the afternoon for Pat and himself.Van was what Alan would have termed an oddball. He was so friendly that it was i...
The wind had changed, dispersing the mist and drying the decks, and whipping little waves across the surface of the swimming pool. They were past the steamy tropic belt, and riding through exhilarating sub-tropic breezes which, perhaps a hundred miles to the east, were tossing palm fronds and blo...