title: The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Volume III: The Finds, a Contextual Study
author: Penelope M. Allison
description: <br />"[M]any will regard the purchase of this volume as essential."--Ray Laurence, <em>The Classical Review</em>
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  **THE NIGHT OF THE**
  
  
  **BULLS**
  
  
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  **Anne Mather**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  It was only desperation that had brought Dionne back to the Camargue, that
  
  
  remote, still little-known part of southern France that had been so important
  
  
  \-- and so tragic -- a part of her life three years ago.
  
  
  
  
  
  Back she had to come to the Mas St. Salvador, and to Manoel, who hadn't
  
  
  wanted her before and who had even less reason to want her now. Back to
  
  
  Manoel's old grandmother, who had been fond of her, to Manoel's mother,
  
  
  who had hated her; to Yvonne, who was by now certainly his wife. How
  
  
  could she face them all?
  
  
  
  
  
  It was only the thought of Jonathan, who needed her and was more important
  
  
  to her than Manoel, that would get her through. For only Manoel could help
  
  
  her and Jonathan now...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  IN early April the _mistral_ blows down the valley of the Rhone, gathering its
  
  
  chilling blast from the ice-clad slopes of Haute Pro