A Crooked Mile (Paperback)

Excerpt: ... that other woman Camoens, and Jenny Rossetti, and Vittoria Colonna Michael Angelo. She might even inspire Edgar to write poetry. And she would be careful to keep the verses out of Cosimo's way. "Abolished " she smiled in gay yet mournful mockery, and also with a touch both of reproach Pg 166 and of disdain in her look. "Oh well, I suppose men think so." But at this he rounded just as suddenly on her as he had done when he had told her that she ought not to have come to the office. Perhaps he felt that he was losing ground again. You may be sure that Edgar Strong, actor, had never had to work as hard for his money as he had to work that afternoon. "Amory " he called imperiously. "I tell you it won't do