6lib.ru - Электронная Библиотека
Название книги: McNally's risk
Автор(ы): Lawrence Sanders
Жанр: Боевик
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/McNally_s-risk-192232.html
1
Occasionally my behavior reminded me of that famous apothegm of the theatre: "Good acting demands absolute sincerity-and if you can fake that you've got it made."What brought on that introspective twitch was that at the moment I was perched on the edge of a lumpy armchair, leaning forward attentively, alert as a bird dog, exhibiting every evidence of sympathetic interest, including clucking-and bored out of my gourd.I was listening to a lecture by Mrs. Gertrude Smythe-Hersforth, a large, imperious lady who may have been the best bridge player in the Town of Palm Beach, but whose conversation had once been described to me as "a diarrhea of words and a constipation of ideas."Mrs. Smythe-Hersforth was expounding on the importance of family tradition and bloodlines, and how in the current mongrelized (her word) Palm Beach society it was more important than ever that people of breeding circled the wagons to defend their world against the determined assault of lesser beings, many of whom didn't have a single hyphen
Название книги: McNally's risk
Автор(ы): Lawrence Sanders
Жанр: Боевик
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/McNally_s-risk-192232.html
1
Occasionally my behavior reminded me of that famous apothegm of the theatre: "Good acting demands absolute sincerity-and if you can fake that you've got it made."What brought on that introspective twitch was that at the moment I was perched on the edge of a lumpy armchair, leaning forward attentively, alert as a bird dog, exhibiting every evidence of sympathetic interest, including clucking-and bored out of my gourd.I was listening to a lecture by Mrs. Gertrude Smythe-Hersforth, a large, imperious lady who may have been the best bridge player in the Town of Palm Beach, but whose conversation had once been described to me as "a diarrhea of words and a constipation of ideas."Mrs. Smythe-Hersforth was expounding on the importance of family tradition and bloodlines, and how in the current mongrelized (her word) Palm Beach society it was more important than ever that people of breeding circled the wagons to defend their world against the determined assault of lesser beings, many of whom didn't have a single hyphen
Навигация с клавиатуры: следующая страница - или ,
предыдущая -
