Occasionally, a sigh of mountain air came from the distant Jura, fading along the plain.

It was a surprise to find out I owed twice as much as I thought I did.

For even if we accept that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, those responsible for the drafting of ancient legal documents were not children, and are hardly to be endowed with some form of infantile mentality.

Turning before the mirror, she studied the gown she’d spent much of her savings on in Belle Terre. “Okay, but not great. In for a penny, in for a pound. Soon I have to get a job.”