laroy's

Updated: July 7, 2026

I thought to myself, 'The devil, I thought, 'here I've lost M. Lucien's manuscript. I couldn't remember calling for it, but I thought I must have done so before I got M. Laroy's. I can't remember much except Virginie these days. I took up the sheet and saw three others a little further on. And I saw a lot more shining just behind the railing of the Luxembourg Garden. You know how hard it rained.

Various - The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales: Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm: Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann

I thought to myself, 'The devil, I thought, 'here I've lost M. Lucien's manuscript. I couldn't remember calling for it, but I thought I must have done so before I got M. Laroy's. I can't remember much except Virginie these days. I took up the sheet and saw three others a little further on. And I saw a lot more shining just behind the railing of the Luxembourg Garden. You know how hard it rained.

- The Lock and Key Library : The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: North Europe — Russian — Swedish — Danish — Hungarian