The Short Stories of Saki, CompleteViking Press, 1937 - 718 pages |
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... BALKAN LUIT KINGS1 UITPOLD WOLKENSTEIN , financier and diplomat on a small , obtrusive , self - important scale , sat in his favoured café in the world - wise Habsburg capital , confronted ... BALKAN KINGS 591 The Purple of the Balkan Kings.
... BALKAN LUIT KINGS1 UITPOLD WOLKENSTEIN , financier and diplomat on a small , obtrusive , self - important scale , sat in his favoured café in the world - wise Habsburg capital , confronted ... BALKAN KINGS 591 The Purple of the Balkan Kings.
Page 593
... Balkan passes , saw the little sheep- skin - clad mannikins driven back to their villages , saw the augustly chiding spokesmen of the Powers dictating , adjusting , restoring , settling things once again in their allotted places ...
... Balkan passes , saw the little sheep- skin - clad mannikins driven back to their villages , saw the augustly chiding spokesmen of the Powers dictating , adjusting , restoring , settling things once again in their allotted places ...
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... Balkan lands are to be finally parcelled out between the competing Christian Kingdoms and the haphazard rule of the Turk banished to beyond the Sea of Marmora , the old order , or dis- order if you like , will have received its death ...
... Balkan lands are to be finally parcelled out between the competing Christian Kingdoms and the haphazard rule of the Turk banished to beyond the Sea of Marmora , the old order , or dis- order if you like , will have received its death ...
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Reginald on Christmas Presents | 6 |
Reginalds Peace Poem | 13 |
Reginald on HouseParties | 20 |
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