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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Page 152
... took Conradin with her , but to him the church service was an alien rite in the House of Rimmon . Every Thursday , in the dim and musty silence of the tool - shed , he worshipped with mystic and elaborate ceremonial before the wooden ...
... took Conradin with her , but to him the church service was an alien rite in the House of Rimmon . Every Thursday , in the dim and musty silence of the tool - shed , he worshipped with mystic and elaborate ceremonial before the wooden ...
Page 512
... took his de- parture , and the shop was slowly emptied of its parcel and gos- sip laden customers . It was Emily Yorling's " day , " and most of the shoppers made their way to her drawing - room . To go direct from a shopping expedition ...
... took his de- parture , and the shop was slowly emptied of its parcel and gos- sip laden customers . It was Emily Yorling's " day , " and most of the shoppers made their way to her drawing - room . To go direct from a shopping expedition ...
Page 545
... took in Venice last summer . " " You showed them to us last night , " said Mrs. Cuvering hastily . " Those were the ones I took in Florence . These are quite a different lot . " " Oh , well , some time tomorrow we can look at them . You ...
... took in Venice last summer . " " You showed them to us last night , " said Mrs. Cuvering hastily . " Those were the ones I took in Florence . These are quite a different lot . " " Oh , well , some time tomorrow we can look at them . You ...
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