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La Comédie humaine - Volume 11. Scènes de la vie parisienne - Tome 03La Comédie humaine - Volume 11. Scènes de la vie parisienne - Tome 03Nest-ce pas vous, madame, dont la haute et probe intelligence est comme un trsor pour vos amis, vous qui tes la fois pour moi tout un public et la plus indulgente...
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SpecimenSpecimenAs official reporter on the project I was in Srtes' office when they brought the alien in. He was as tall as an average Zade, of pretty much the same color, and would have been able to pass as one of us except that...
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The Used People LotThe Used People LotEver since that drunk in his two-seat Charioteer plowed into the rear end with such force that even my radar repellant couldn't stop it, my Thunderflash had been out of kilter. The specialists my garage recommended worked over it for two...
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El OmbúEl OmbúWho has lived with and knows (even to the marrow as they would themselves say) the horsemen of the Pampas, and who alone of European writers has rendered something of the vanishing colour of that remote life. The two short stories included in...
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Scenes and PortraitsScenes and PortraitsIt is a necessity of the human mind to give everything a name, thus recognising a difference between one thing and another, and recording it. Science, which is the highest development of this necessity, recognises, and records systematically, all the facts of...
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BattlewrackBattlewrackThe sun hung in the mists of morning, swollen, blood-red, a symbol of augury, as the artillery brigade pulled out of the village where it had been billeted for the night. At the tail of its long line of slowly moving vehicles marched a...
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The Downhill Side of ThirtyThe Downhill Side of ThirtyChuck Dane patted shaving lotion on his face, enjoying the second of vicious sting. He closed the medicine cabinet and stood for a minute examining himself in the fluorescent lighted mirror. He was lean and hard and, of course, tanned....
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The Fascinating Stranger, and Other StoriesThe Fascinating Stranger, and Other StoriesMR. GEORGE TUTTLE, reclining at ease in his limousine, opened one eye just enough to perceive that daylight had reached his part of the world, then closed that eye, and murmured languidly. What he said, however, was not, Home,...
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The Owls' HouseThe Owls' HouseIt was late evening when John Penhale left the Helston lawyers office. A fine drizzle was blowing down Coinage Hall Street; thin beams of light pierced the chinks of house shutters and curtains, barred the blue dusk with misty orange rays, touched...
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The Dinner ClubThe Dinner ClubOn a certain day in the year of grace 1920, there came into being a special and very select club. There was no entrance fee and no subscription, in which respect it differed from all other clubs. Its membership was limited to...
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The Marrying ManThe Marrying ManIt wasn't that Pete Cooper didn't love his wives, or that he wanted to see them hurry on into the next world. He always felt real grief when he found himself a widower. But a man must be practical. They were all...
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Short SnorterShort SnorterThree paths led through the woods away from the resort hotel, and of the three two were clearly marked: one with a sign that said it led to the lake, the other pointing toward the golf links. The third pathway was unmarked, and...
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HomecomingHomecomingThe rider was of medium size, with huge, strong hands and seemingly hollow eyes. Strange eyes, alive and aflame. They had no place in the dust-caked, tired body, yet there they were, seeking, always seekingsearching the clear horizon, and never seeming to find what...
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Rabbits Have Long EarsRabbits Have Long EarsCommander Losure gave orders to his navigator to bring the ship in on the satellite out of sight of the prying telescopes which no doubt existed on such an invitingly green planet. He was a cautious man and didn't intend to...
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Henry Esmondin historia: Hänen itsensä kertomanaHenry Esmondin historia: Hänen itsensä kertomanaI. Selostus Esmondin perheest Castlewoodin linnassa. II. Kuvaus siit miten Francis, neljs varakreivi, saapuu Castlewoodiin. III. Thomas, kolmas varakreivi, oli vienyt minut sinne paashiksi Isabellalle. IV. Minut pannaan roomalaiskatolisen papin kasvatettavaksi ja kasvatetaan siihen uskoon. Varakreivitr Castlewood. V. Haltiavkeni...
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The Super OpenerThe Super Opener"For two years there hasn't been one lousy improvement in the Piltdon Can-Opener!" roared Mr. Piltdon. "Look at our competitors. The International rips apart cans in three and three-tenths seconds. Universal does it in four." "The Minerva Mighty Midget does it in...
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Whom the Gods DestroyedWhom the Gods DestroyedTranscriber's Notes: Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public domain. The...
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Miss Billy: A Neighborhood StoryMiss Billy: A Neighborhood Story The house looked wretched and woe-begone: Its desolate windows wept With a dew that forever dripped and crept From the moss-grown eaves: and ever anon Some idle wind, with a passing slap, Made rickety shutter or shingle flap. MARCH...
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Antic HayAntic HayGumbril, Theodore Gumbril Junior, B.A. Oxon., sat in his oaken stall on the north side of the School Chapel and wondered, as he listened through the uneasy silence of half a thousand schoolboys to the First Lesson, pondered, as he looked up at...
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1900 or, The last President1900; or, The last PresidentThat was a terrible night for the great City of New Yorkthe night of Tuesday, November 3rd, 1896. The city staggered under the blow like a huge ocean liner which plunges, full speed, with terrific crash into a mighty iceberg,...
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