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Reginald In Russia
Reginald sat in a corner of the Princess's salon and tried to forgive the furniture, which started out with an obvious intention of being L…
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The Reticence Of Lady Anne
Egbert came into the large, dimly lit drawing-room with the air of a man who is not certain whether he is entering a dovecote or a bomb fac…
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The Lost Sanjak
The prison Chaplain entered the condemned's cell for the last time, to give such consolation as he might. "The only consolation I crave for…
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The Sex That Doesn'T Shop
The opening of a large new centre for West End shopping, particularly feminine shopping, suggests the reflection, Do women ever really shop…
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The Blood-Feud Of Toad-Water
A WEST-COUNTRY EPIC The Cricks lived at Toad-Water; and in the same lonely upland spot Fate had pitched the home of the Saunderses, and for…
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A Young Turkish Catastrophe
IN TWO SCENES The Minister for Fine Arts (to whose Department had been lately added the new sub-section of Electoral Engineering) paid a bu…
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Judkin Of The Parcels
A figure in an indefinite tweed suit, carrying brown-paper parcels. That is what we met suddenly, at the bend of a muddy Dorsetshire lane,…
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Gabriel-Ernest
"There is a wild beast in your woods," said the artist Cunningham, as he was being driven to the station. It was the only remark he had mad…
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The Saint And The Goblin
The little stone Saint occupied a retired niche in a side aisle of the old cathedral. No one quite remembered who he had been, but that in…
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The Soul Of Laploshka
Laploshka was one of the meanest men I have ever met, and quite one of the most entertaining. He said horrid things about other people in s…
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The Bag
"The Major is coming in to tea," said Mrs. Hoopington to her niece. "He's just gone round to the stables with his horse. Be as bright and l…
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The Strategist
Mrs. Jallatt's young people's parties were severely exclusive; it came cheaper that way, because you could ask fewer to them. Mrs. Jallatt…
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Cross Currents
Vanessa Pennington had a husband who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances, and an admirer who, though comfortably rich, was cumbere…
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The Mouse
Theodoric Voler had been brought up, from infancy to the confines of middle age, by a fond mother whose chief solicitude had been to keep h…