Albertine

Léa did not know her, who could assure me that, having certainly seen her at Balbec, she would not recognise her and make a signal to her from the stage that would entitle Albertine to seek admission behind the scenes?

The Captive 2003

When Allegra was just seven, her mother opened a wine bar in Sheppard's Bush called Albertine's.

Regina Varolli: Allegra McEvedy's Bought, Borrowed & Stolen Regina Varolli 2012

When Allegra was just seven, her mother opened a wine bar in Sheppard's Bush called Albertine's.

Regina Varolli: Allegra McEvedy's Bought, Borrowed & Stolen Regina Varolli 2012

When Allegra was just seven, her mother opened a wine bar in Sheppard's Bush called Albertine's.

Regina Varolli: Allegra McEvedy's Bought, Borrowed & Stolen Regina Varolli 2012

When Allegra was just seven, her mother opened a wine bar in Sheppard's Bush called Albertine's.

Regina Varolli: Allegra McEvedy's Bought, Borrowed & Stolen Regina Varolli 2012

I doubted that I would be able to sleep if I went home, and it was too early to call Albertine's mother and the boys to tell them what had happened, so when I reached the corner, I turned toward Carl Schurz Park instead.

Albertine Takes A Tumble 2009

I recalled Albertine alighting from a railway-carriage and telling me that she wanted to go to Saint-Mars le Vêtu, and I saw her again also with her ‘polo’ pulled down over her cheeks, I found once more possibilities of pleasure, towards which I sprang saying to myself: “We might have gone on together to Incarville, to Doncières.”

The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

Serious prospecting for oil in the East African nation began early last decade, mostly in and around the rift valley area known as the Albertine region, which runs along the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

The legs, the arms are full of blunted memories; a reminiscence germinating in my arm had made me seek the bell behind my back, as I used to in my room in Paris and I had called Albertine, imagining my dead friend lying beside me as she so often did at evening when we fell asleep together, counting the time it would take Françoise to reach us, so that Albertine might without imprudence pull the bell I could not find.

Time Regained 2003

But albeit the idea of Albertine’s death made headway in me, the reflux of the sensation that she was alive, if it did not arrest that progress, obstructed it nevertheless and prevented its being regular.

The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003