1122 2 1
|
It was that awkward time when one didn’t know if the night’s lover wanted to see you again.
|
147152
|
Ben considered his options in the taxi to Charles De Gaulle airport.
|
113221
|
The pawnbroker sat behind bulletproof glass at the rear of the display area, a veritable potentate of hope and cash, exchanging expendable items for derisory cash.
|
125731
|
It was the first warm day of a late-arriving spring. Ben was sitting in his divorce lawyer’s office on Maiden Lane in lower Manhattan.
|
16821710
|
“What are you doing, Maestro?"
|
101542
|
Rent yourself a decent place to live, one with a shower.
|
102142
|
Maria Monsanto, the curator of Francesco Martinelli's Atmospheres show, stood in the middle of the third-floor gallery.
|
117053
|
—Mr. Martinelli, can you explain how you developed your painting technique?
|
117863
|
If you shoot at them now, it'll be attempted murder or, worse, premeditated murder.
|
103021
|
Francesco entered the gallery, and he immediately went to work.
|
104411
|
Oriana, much as she wanted to, did not sleep with Francesco, propriety ruled.
|
102421
|
Francesco tried to fix Oriana's face in his mind as he blindly walked to the taxi queue.
|
134753
|
In his dreamlike state the pianist turned into a preying mantis.
|
96352
|
—Francesco, said Zambrano, rising from his desk and putting his arm around Frank's shoulder. You and me, we're business partners. Regular capital crime buddies.
|
134642
|
Frank shouldered his backpack, grabbed the leather satchel packed with his brushes, palette knives, pens, and pencils, and exited the vaporetto at the Rialto Bridge.
|
