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And as the sun was sinking toward the glittering sea, the consumptive German rose from his seat, gave me a parting bow, and retired into the hotel. ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 3. GUY DE MAUPASSANT ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES Translated by ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A. MME. QUESADA and Others
His stories are first-rate he does all the parts in different voices. At last he said 'Look here, young-uns. I like to see you play and enjoy yourselves, and I don't think it hurts Albert to enjoy himself too. 'I don't think he did much, said H. O. But I knew what Albert-next-door's uncle meant because I am much older than H. O. He went on 'But what about Albert's mother?
Is that that impudent young clerk of yours to go unpunished?" "Why, yes, I guess likely he is." "Then I shall NEVER buy another dollar's worth of your house again, sir." Captain Zelotes bowed. "I'm sorry to lose your trade, Mr. Calvin," he said. "Good mornin'." Albert, at his desk in the outer office, was waiting rebelliously to be called before his grandfather and upbraided.
Mercedes raised her eyes to heaven with an expression it would be impossible to describe, and tears, which had hitherto been restrained, now yielded to her emotion, and ran down her cheeks. "The price of his blood!" she murmured. "Yes, if I am killed," said Albert, laughing.
Colonel Hampton rose, putting his heel on the hypodermic and crushing it. "Of course she's dead!" he barked. "You have any first-aid training? Then look after these other people. Doctor Vehrner first; the other man's unconscious; he'll wait." "No; look after the other man first," Doctor Vehrner said. Albert gaped back and forth between them. "Goddammit, you heard me!" Colonel Hampton roared.
Then he added, "You are my guest as long as you can stay in Boston, and now we can go sight-seeing with a light heart." How earnestly Albert set about entertaining Uncle Terry, and how thoroughly the old man enjoyed it all, need not be enlarged upon. When two days later he was ready to depart, Albert handed him a large package containing a silk dress pattern for Aunt Lissy, a woolen one for Mrs.
He fried bacon and strips of dried beef, boiled coffee, and warmed slices of bread over the coals. He saw with intense pleasure that Albert ate with a better appetite than he had shown for days. As for himself, he was as hungry as a horse he always was on this great journey and since there was plenty, he ate long, and was happy.
Albert McCalla, at the meeting of the American Society of Microscopists, at Columbus, O. It consists of a small disk of silvered plate glass, c, about one-eighth of an inch thick, which is cemented by glycerine or some homogeneous immersion medium to the under surface of the glass-slide, s.
Simultaneously there came two other personages plainly garbed in Belgian costume, yet most distinguished aside from that. There was a certain respect, almost deference, in the way Baron Suvahl and his wife met the King, for one of the visitors was really King Albert of Belgium. His wife, the queen, was even more democratic.
I suppose they've struck up some sort of a bargain. It's rather pathetic." "Good Heavens! What a tragedy for the man," commented Flossie. "What is he like?" asked Joan. "Not much to look at, if that's what you mean," answered Madge. "Began life as a miner, I believe. Looks like ending as Prime Minister." "I heard him at the Albert Hall last week," said Flossie. "He's quite wonderful."
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