title: Talking Turkey and Other Clichs We Say (Ways to Say It)
author:  Nancy Loewen 
description: Trish and Faye are best buddiesyou could even say that they are true blue friends, that they are thick as thieves. Theyre waiting around before the big Bonus Brothers concert, which will most likely knock their socks off. If youve seen your share --Booklist
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  A WOMAN WITH A PAST
  
  
  “Have you found your compatriots welcoming even though your relatives have
  returned to France?”
  
  
  Her mouth twisted. “The grand émigrés in Soho will have nothing to do with a
  woman who was a whore in Turkey.”
  
  
  He winced. “Surely no one said such an appalling thing!”
  
  
  “The aristocratic ladies did. Their husbands tried to corner me in empty
  rooms,” she said tartly. “I decided I would be safer among my more humble
  countrymen here in St. Pancras.”
  
  
  He bit off a curse. “You deserve so much better than this, Suzanne!”
  
  
  She sighed. “If there is one thing I have learned, it’s that no one ‘deserves’
  anything more than the right to struggle for survival. I’d rather be here
  altering gowns in a cold room than living in luxury in a Turkish harem and
  wondering which night might be my last, so I think I am doing well.” She
  raised her teacup in a mock toast. “Will you drink to my survival, Simon?”
  
  
  “I can do more than that,” he said, his gaze intense. “M