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Lily seldom made a mistake in the orders, so she got on well with her three mistresses. Gabriel stood on the mat while Lily led his wife to the foot, and then his aunts and wife kissed him...

Three weeks ago I came up here to Vermont to visit my old aunt and decide whether I will marry a millionnaire and become Aunt Bring. Saul wanted to get out the double sleigh and span, but Sophie...

Jim Shorthouse's private secretaryship was never clear to me. Mr. Jonas B. Sidebotham watched him narrowly and struck a match. The two men talked in low voices for another hour, and then the silent...

A most dreadful thing has happened - a horrible murder has been committed. Mr. Marchmont certified that the man was dead, and Thorndyke produced a small folding camera, a telescopic tripod, a...

The lord of Valennes had taken a mean wife and hunted tame animals to cover his pleasures, but the widow and her daughter had only bread enough to save them from dying of hunger. One rainy day, the...

I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. Our fireplaces are on opposite sides, but our flue is separate throughout. The main reason of this style of chimney building is...

Dr Ragin is honest and intelligent but lacks the strength of character to see to it that life around him is honest and intelligent - which h

Tommaso Tonelli was rich but his heart was still young, but he was a fickle lover. Tonelli's life on holidays was varied. She dined with the notary, and her parrot had almost as much freedom as...

The most enthusiastic lover of that "useful and noble animal," the horse, followed me, but my neighbor departed hurriedly with an unfinished sentence. My next intermediary was Enriquez Saltello, a...

Life's roughest jokes don't have punch-lines.

The papa had told the story so often that the children knew just what to expect the moment he began. One of the little pumpkin seeds wanted to grow into the biggest pumpkin ever. The farmer was...

WILD cat was listening to the melody of distant hounds tracking a remote fox. She shinned up a tree as the dogs burst into view below her and stifled their songs upon the body of their victim...