the young woman crying. She was so sad, her heart was breaking, and he wanted to help her but
he lost his footing and fell into the....
water, but he managed to...
swim to the side of the moat and he pulled himself up the steep slippery opposite bank by grasping at the reeds that grew there.He looked up at the window and....
knew that he had let her down - she was out of his reach as he was such an accident-prone buffoon. Hanging his head, he
pondered the matter for a while as he was wringing his socks out and suddenly realised that the late night coach was due and that the drawbridge would be...
lowering to allow it to pass. Should he continue to try to reach her, or abort his efforts and board the coach and ride out of her life forever, he wondered. He decided to
put all such cowardly thoughts from his mind and waited in the shadows for the coach to race through the gate and slip inside undercover of the cloud of dust and the clattering of hooves and steel rims on cobbles.He unsheathed his rapier and,with a jewelled dagger in the other hand,he stole silently...
under the dark cover of night towards the house. A lone window was lit from within - drawing him like a moth to a flame. He was so intent on his mission that he failed to hear the
sound of footsteps behind him. Stealthly and almost silently, they crept closer and closer to his space when suddenly he turned and
was confronted by a sight of such import to his life that he will never forget it. He saw a
lorry ontop of which was a grand piano being played by
Vladimir Ashkenazy.He was playing Mozart's piano concerto No 21 and so transfixed were the guards by the ineffable sweetness that Valmont was easily able to slip through the gatehouse and dashing through the shadows he arrived at the foot of a stone staircase which....
led upwards through the strange, murmurring darkness, alive with quiet rustlings. Though he was unnerved and unsure he followed his heart and slowly put one foot in front of the other until he reached the top step. As he moved to open the door, a
a serving wench suddenly appeared:
"'ere,whard ee you doin' 'ere? she said in a tremulous voice seeing the glint of the dagger and the rapier at the ready.
"I am the Comte de Valmont and I rescue pretty damsels from the ....
small bearded man in a peaked cap said "Tickets please, you can't go through that door without a ticket." So Valmont
smacked him in the gizzard with the back of his hand and grabbing the serving wench he rushed through the open door only to be confronted by...
two burly policemen dressed entirely in kitchen paper which
had already been used and was mottled and slimy with tomato sauce,marmalade and egg yoke so Valmont laughed and they crumbled into dust at the sheer mortification leaving the way clear for him to...
take off from runway 3, the runway with the big ice puddle right in the centre
