…nor by the hundred-dollar pink Charvet shirts from Paris he…

…nor by the hundred-dollar pink Charvet shirts from Paris he could ill afford on the clerk’s salary he earned at the French embassy in Knightsbridge.

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Ted Bell, Pirate (2005), p.21

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