The Short Stories of Saki (H.H. Munro)Contains the best of Saki's short stories, a biography by his sister and an introduction. |
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... aunts is always so precarious . There is my Aunt Agatha , par exemple , who sent me a pair of gloves last Christmas , and even got so far as to choose a kind that was being worn and had the correct number of buttons . But they were ...
... aunts is always so precarious . There is my Aunt Agatha , par exemple , who sent me a pair of gloves last Christmas , and even got so far as to choose a kind that was being worn and had the correct number of buttons . But they were ...
Page 496
... aunt , the vicar , and her aunt's housekeeper had put at her disposal . And now , in her twenty - ninth year , her aunt's death had left her , well provided for as regards income , but somewhat isolated in the matter of kith and kin and ...
... aunt , the vicar , and her aunt's housekeeper had put at her disposal . And now , in her twenty - ninth year , her aunt's death had left her , well provided for as regards income , but somewhat isolated in the matter of kith and kin and ...
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... aunt in “ The Lumber Room " is Aunt Augusta to the life . " It was her habit , whenever one of the children fell from grace , to improvise something of a festival nature from which the offender would be rigorously debarred ; if all the ...
... aunt in “ The Lumber Room " is Aunt Augusta to the life . " It was her habit , whenever one of the children fell from grace , to improvise something of a festival nature from which the offender would be rigorously debarred ; if all the ...
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Reginald 36x | 8 |
Reginalds Choir Treat | 15 |
Reginald at the Carlton | 22 |
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