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Ben was not a happy musician.
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Besotted by an overload of scotch, Ben’s brain barely alerted him to loud knocking at his door.
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Ben did not respond, but sat staring lizard-eyed at the shattered remains of his glorious musical instrument.
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Two women sat at a small round table near the sidewalk waiting for the same man.
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Sounds like something a woman would do.
—You think so? said Ben. What woman would do that to me? I don’t know any women in Nice.
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—Hey, lover man, where’s my breakfast? said Monique, tousling Ben’s hair.
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Can’t you do anything right?
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I am beleaguered by duplicity.
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Ben was cheered to see Monique in good spirits again.
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Zoë’s divorce lawyer, Arno Aghajanian (“Double A” to his friends), sat at his desk in Los Angeles reading a copy of the Hollywood Intelligencer.
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—Can you handle a threesome? said Isabella.
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—Christ all mighty, said Ben to himself as he watched Isabella and Leona enter the bank. Those are some extraordinary examples of female flesh.
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Anatoly Gringovitch was listening to the dress rehearsal of Hausenstockmann’s Constellations at Auditorium Rainier III in Monte Carlo.
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Girolamo Dente was nodding off in his studio at Découvrir Art when he heard the alarm.
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Thérèse Defarge felt the first drop around ten.
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