[The Whirlpool by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThe Whirlpool CHAPTER 8 28/29
Was he mistaken, he began, in thinking that certain photographs from Bregenz had come to him by Miss Frothingham's kindness? For his part, he had spent June in a ramble in South-west France, chiefly by the Dordogne, and through a strange, interesting bit of marsh-country, called La Double.
'I hardly know how I got there, and I shall not worry you by writing any account of the expedition.
But at a miserable village called La Roche Chalais, where I had a most indigestible supper and a bed unworthy of the name, I managed to fall ill, and quite seriously thought, "Ah, here is the end!" It has to come somewhere, and why not on a _grabat_ at La Roche Chalais? A mistake; I am here again, wasting life as strenuously as ever.
Would you let me hear from you? I should think it a great addition to your kindness in sending the views.
And so, with every good wish, he remained, &c. Having nothing better to do, Alma got out a map of France, and searched for La Roche Chalais; but the place was too insignificant to be marked. On the morrow, being still without occupation, she answered Rolfe's letter, and in quite a playful vein.
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