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... UMBERLEIGH a first - class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat , green Hungarian plain , two Britons sat in friendly , fitful converse . They had first foregathered ... UMBERLEIGH The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh.
... UMBERLEIGH a first - class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat , green Hungarian plain , two Britons sat in friendly , fitful converse . They had first foregathered ... UMBERLEIGH The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh.
Page 458
... Umberleigh . He was a rich man , and the £ 2,000 a year , though not exactly a fleabite , did not seem an extravagant price to pay for the boarding - out of Crispina . Of course , he had severe qualms of conscience about the arrangement ...
... Umberleigh . He was a rich man , and the £ 2,000 a year , though not exactly a fleabite , did not seem an extravagant price to pay for the boarding - out of Crispina . Of course , he had severe qualms of conscience about the arrangement ...
Page 459
... Umberleigh before the missing woman turned up ; the subsequent yearly instalments were an unlooked - for incre- ment to the original haul . " Crispina found that the eight years ' interregnum had materially weakened her ascendency over ...
... Umberleigh before the missing woman turned up ; the subsequent yearly instalments were an unlooked - for incre- ment to the original haul . " Crispina found that the eight years ' interregnum had materially weakened her ascendency over ...
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Introduction by Christopher Morley | 10 |
Reginald | 10 |
The Saint and the Goblin | 75 |
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