Their father, Augustin, died in nineteen forty-three. A short illness, Camille said, though short was a word that meant different things to the person in the bed and the people beside it. Gabriel was fourteen. He had loved his father with a boy's absolute faith in the permanence of a grown man.
Their father, Augustin, died in nineteen forty-three. A short illness, Camille said, though short was a word that meant different things to the person in the bed and the people beside it. Gabriel was fourteen. He had loved his father with a boy's absolute faith in the permanence of a grown man.Source · Chapter 7, paragraph 79