The Stranger: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Albert Camus Classics)

by Albert Camus

I understood why my employer had looked rather cross when I asked for my two days off;

Obviously he had seen that it would mean my getting four days' holiday straight off, and one couldn't expect him to like that.

So I turned my head and lazily sniffed the smell of brine that Marie's head had left on the pillow.

erm…….

Perhaps through living in one small room, cooped up with his dog, Salamano has come to resemble it.

He wanted to write her a letter, "a real stinker,

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.

I didn’t say anything or make any movement, but for the first time in my life, I wanted to kiss a man.

erm….