A novel by Françoise Sagan TRANSLATED BY PETER WILES LONDON JOHN MURRAY ALBEMARLE STREET, W.1.
First published in Great Britain 1960 © Françoise Sagan 1959 English translation © 1960 by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd., London, and E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London To Guy CONTENTS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1 PAULE gazed at her face in the mirror and studied the accumulated defeats of thirty-nine years, one by one, not with the panic, the acrimony usual at such times but with a detached calm. As though the tepid skin, which her two fingers plucked now and then to accentuate a wrinkle or bring out a shadow, belonged to someone else, to another Paule passionately concerned with her beauty and battling with the transition from young to youngish woman: a woman she scarcely recognised. She had stationed herself at this mirror to kill time only to discover— she smiled at the thought—that time was gradually, painlessly killing her, aiming its blows at an appearance she knew had been loved.
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