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Simon the Jester
William John Locke
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Simon de Gex, a wealthy and successful MP, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to use his last few months using his wealth and influence to do good. In particular, he determines to guide his protégé and friend, Dale, away from an unfortunate relationship with Lola Brandt, a lady with an unsuitably colourful background.
Simon de Gex, a wealthy and successful MP, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to use his last few months using his wealth and influence to do good. In particular, he determines to guide his protégé and friend, Dale, away from an unfortunate relationship with Lola Brandt, a lady with an unsuitably colourful background.
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"Carissima."
"Is that the untamed Persian you were telling me of?" she asked, pointing to a cage from which a ferocious gigantic animal more like a woolly tiger than a tom-cat looked out with expressionless yellow eyes. "Will you let Mr. de Gex try to make friends with it?"
"Your will is law, meine Konigin," replied Professor Papadopoulos, bowing low. "But Hephaestus is as fierce as the flames of hell."
"See what he'll do," laughed Lola Brandt.
I approached the cage with an ingratiating, "Puss, puss!" and a hideous growl welcomed me. I ventured my hand towards the bars. The beast bristled in demoniac wrath, spat with malignant venom, and shot out its claws. If I had touched it my hand would have been torn to shreds. I have never seen a more malevolent, fierce, spiteful, ill-condition. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
There are some ire ties to resent past world happenings that make the book so believable. The tragedies that people face and how they adapt to deal with their losses.
Simon de Gex M.P. has been diagnosed with a terminal illness (that he has conveniently forgotten the name of) and at best has just six more months to live. He decides to use his time left to give away all his money, resign from his job and meddle in other people's lives under the mistaken belief it
I read this just a little at a time, and as a result didn't get into the story as much as I might have otherwise, but it was pretty good. Simon de Gex has been informed that he will probably die within the next six months, so he determines to chuck his political career and do some good deeds while h
Why did this title put me off?
I think it was because I kept picturing a clown, and I don't like clowns. But, folks, rest easy. There are no clowns here, although we do have a retired horse trainer who worked with a circus, and her name is Lola. We also have her dear friend, a midget, no less, with
When Simon de Gex, wealthy and successful MP, finds he has six months to live, he embarks on a quest for "eumoiriety".
In the words of Marcus Aurelius, " Let death surprise me when or where it will, I may be eumoiros, or a happy man, nevertheless. For he is a happy man who in his lifetime dealeth unt