The Suitors by Cecile David-Weill

Author:Cecile David-Weill
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781590515747
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2013-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

Friday, 6:00 p.m.

Hidden behind his Paris-Turf, Frédéric greeted me when I showed up at L’Agapanthe that Friday like a puppeteer announcing the arrival of Punch and Judy, with a jolly “Are we ever going to have fun!”

Charles Ramsbotham, who had shown up shortly before I did, had just broken all the rules in the book by giving my father a Jet Ski, even though he knew perfectly well that all guest gifts ought to be purely symbolic gestures.

A man of concrete and practical mind, Charles could never remember any of these rules of savoir vivre for very long, for he had no patience with such subtleties. As a guest, he thought it shameful to offer what he considered “crud,” which was doubtless suitable for the impecunious friends of my parents, but not for him, for his lifestyle was so opulent that one might well have thought him even wealthier than he was. Indeed, his generous character and personal ethics impelled him to treat his friends with the same lavish generosity with which he indulged himself. This led him, every year, to offer my father some costly gadget such as a GPS or a satellite telephone with worldwide coverage, a device that had the considerable merit of keeping Charles temporarily occupied (until he had mastered the operating instructions and tested his gift for his hosts) in a house where he was bored stiff.

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