She turned toward me (then, I was sixty two, and a director of two oil companies) and with an intense stare that communicated to all and sundry, and particularly to me, that she was a teacher and, I might add, a rather formidable one, she elucidate for my own (ignorant) benefit that: By then, my wife had an amused and rather wide grin drawn acriss her face, that for an instant – but for an instant alone – reminded me of Schiapparelli and his many Martian canals …
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