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The Lost Ambassador

E. Phillips Oppenheim

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Louis was right. For more reasons than he knew of, it was well that I should leave Paris.

"Are you coming with me?" I asked.

"I am crossing by the night boat," Louis answered. "I have not quite finished the work for which I came over. I have some things to buy."

I smiled.

"Upon my word," I said, "I had forgotten your profession."

I went back into the hotel and paid my bill. Louis drove with me to the station and saw to the registration of my luggage. Afterwards he found my reserved seat, in which I arranged my rug and books. Then I turned and walked down the corridor with him.

"I trust," he said, "that monsieur will have a pleasant journey and pleasant companions."

I glanced into the coupé which we were just passing. It seemed curious that even as the wish left his lips I should find myself looking into the dark eyes of the girl whos. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Paris and London Society, 1910
International Intrigue

Captain Austen Rotherby is on a mission of revenge in Paris. Standing outside of the Opera, he surveys the haute monde as they exit:

"I took up my place just inside, close to one of the pillars, and, with an unlit cigarette still in my mouth, watc

I really wanted to like this.

First, the good bits: for something written in 1910, it remains an exceptionally easy read. Some of the vocabulary is delightful: taximeter, autobus (occasionally contracted to 'bus, with the apostrophe), motor-bicycle.

But. I read in Wikipedia that Oppenheim never outlin