Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon

Author:Georges Simenon [Simenon, Georges]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Georges Simenon
ISBN: 9780156028523
Google: pwACAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0156028522
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 1973-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

“Why are you always accusing me of not loving you?

You don’t expect me to give up the training ship, do you?

What could we do?

“Don’t get excited. We have plenty of time before us.

With an affectionate kiss…”

Maigret waved his hand as much as to say that they had heard enough. But Madame Popinga picked up another letter.

“There’s this one,” she said. “I think it must be the last he wrote.

“My Beetje,—It’s quite impossible. Do please be reasonable. You know I have no money and that it might take ages to find a post abroad.

“Don’t let yourself get so worked up. You must have confidence in the future. Everything will come out all right.

“Don’t be frightened. If what you fear happened, I wouldn’t let you down.

“I’m afraid I am rather irritable because I have so much work to do, and when I think of you, work goes badly. Yesterday I was hauled over the coals about something, and I’m rather upset about it.

“I’ll try to get off tomorrow evening on some pretext or other.”

Madame Popinga looked from one to the other of the people standing around her. Her eyes were dim. She looked tired, dead tired.

But she stretched out her hand toward the other pile of letters, the ones she had brought in herself. The farmer winced.

She picked up the first one she touched and, opening it, read:

“Dear Conrad, whom I love,—Here’s some good news for you. As a birthday present Papa has put another thousand florins into my bank account. That’s enough to take us to America, for I have looked in the paper to see how much it costs. We could go third class, couldn’t we?

“But why aren’t you more anxious to be off? I live for nothing else. Everything in Holland is suffocating to me.

And I can’t help thinking that the people in Delfzijl already look at me in a disapproving way.

“At the same time I’m immeasurably happy and so proud to belong to a man like you.

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