The Complete Short Stories of Saki (H.H. Munro) |
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Page 480
... lunch - time , all three of them , with their tongues hanging out of their mouths and the six - course look in their eyes . If I were to breathe the word ' lunch ' they would hustle me into a taxi and scream ' Ritz ' or ' Dieudonné's ...
... lunch - time , all three of them , with their tongues hanging out of their mouths and the six - course look in their eyes . If I were to breathe the word ' lunch ' they would hustle me into a taxi and scream ' Ritz ' or ' Dieudonné's ...
Page 482
... lunch . The conversation hardly kept pace with the brilliancy of the menu . Repeated references on the part of the guests to the local political conditions and prospects in Sir James's con- stituency were met with vague " ahs " and ...
... lunch . The conversation hardly kept pace with the brilliancy of the menu . Repeated references on the part of the guests to the local political conditions and prospects in Sir James's con- stituency were met with vague " ahs " and ...
Page 483
Saki. lunch with you here , and that I accepted your kind invitation . Beyond that my mind is a positive blank . ' The scared look was transferred with intensified poignancy to the faces of her companions . " You asked us to lunch ...
Saki. lunch with you here , and that I accepted your kind invitation . Beyond that my mind is a positive blank . ' The scared look was transferred with intensified poignancy to the faces of her companions . " You asked us to lunch ...
Contents
Introduction by Christopher Morley | 10 |
Reginald | 10 |
The Saint and the Goblin | 75 |
Copyright | |
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