Novel 1981 - Comstock Lode (v5.0) - Plot & Excerpts
“You wished to see me?” He stood up. “I do, of course. You are an uncommonly beautiful woman, Margrita.” It was the first time he had addressed her by her given name, and she did not like it. If he was aware of her reaction, he indicated no evidence of it. “Thank you,” she acknowledged. The man who called himself Albert Hesketh had never in his life had time for the social graces. He had rarely talked to women and, generally speaking, despised them. He thought about them rarely and had in his mind several opinions of what they were like. His own fight had been for money and position, and he was quite sure that was what any intelligent person wanted, and women most of all. “Margrita, as you may know, I have become a very rich man, and I shall be even richer.” There was something in the way he spoke that irritated her, but she made no reply. “Since our first meeting I have come to know you, and you are just the wife I have been—” “What?” She stared at him in total disbelief.
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