Crossword-Solution: LEC 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

And your brother-in-law, how is he?” “Oh, he——” Madame Lecœur bit her lips, and seemed disinclined to say anything more.

Still, I once heard it said that he spent his money in such a way that—” “But does anyone know how he spends his money?” interrupted Madame Lecœur, with much asperity.

When his wife died, her eldest sister, Madame Lecœur, who had become a widow about a year previously, had mourned for her in an exaggerated fashion, and gone almost every evening to tender consolation to the bereaved husband.

Gavard, however, abominated lean women; and would, indeed, only stroke such cats and dogs as were very fat; so that Madame Lecœur, who was long and withered, failed in her designs.

Madame Lecœur’s acerbity of temper was brought to a pitch by what she called La Sarriette’s ingratitude, and she spoke of the girl in the most violent and abusive language.