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ONE<br >We had been sitting in the room for close to an hour,<br >talking about this and that--the Warriors, the Democrats,<br >Mozart, Montaigne. I was a nondescript private eye who<br >could stuff all of his assets int(J some carry-on luggage if<br >he owned any carry-on luggag% and he was one of the<br >ten wealthiest men in the city if you didn t count the<br >had everything money could buy and most<br >it could rent. In a while he would be renting<br > The room had once been a den, comfortable and<br >masculine, the repository of riches gathered during a life-<br >time of commercial conquest. From where I sat I could see<br >a pre-Columbian torso and a post-Impressionist landscape<br >and a harpsichord worthy of Landowska. But the riches had<br >been shoved into the corners to make room for a bed be-<br >cause in spite of all the prizes, or just maybe because of<br >them, Maximilian Kottle was dying. When he realized I<br >knew it he told me why.<br > "Cancer," he said crisply, with cocky defiance.<br > I had guessed as much, but even so I had nothing to<br >say worth saying. The word lay in the center of the room,<br >the way it always does, like a dead rat that everyone sees<br >but no one wants to pick up and carry out to the trash.<br > "I m sorry," I mumbled finally, embarrassed be-<br >cause I was embarrassed.<br > Kottle shrugged. "Don t be. Poor Belinda, my wife,<br ><br >
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Death Bed pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024