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Rulledge said that it's easy to see what Wanhope does his high thinking on, and continued smoking his cigar. Minver ran after him, and Rulledge felt like another boy. Ormond saw the figure of Death...

When Max was killed and buried and a shallow grave, he thought his troubles would be over. He was wrong. He’s just realized he’s a vampire, and he sucks at it.

A tailor befriends a rich man, but loses everything to his greedy kin and dies poor, with only a riding-whip left.

When they spent the winter in Paris planning for the summer in America, the boy pulled out Tata's trunk first and piled the things in it next to her trunk. Forsyth said that his little girl mustn't...

A foolish boy takes a chance on impressing a Princess and wins her love.

Matt first met Rourke when he was laying the foundation for a small dynamo in the engine-room of the repair shop at Spike. Rourke was the foreman-mason for minor tasks for all that part of the...

When the pope left Avignon to take up residence in Rome, three pilgrims came to Avignon to celebrate his return. Three pilgrims loosened their tongues and agreed to journey to Rome together. They...

Kung fu dubbee and would-be actress, Ally gets one last chance.

The Young Electrician was arguing with his young friend when the Youngish Girl laughed explosively and caught up the latent amusement in the Young Electrician's face. Martha learned her table...

The Captain was a tall man of about forty, with reddish-brown, stiff hair, and a Prussian aristocrat. He grew madly irritable and harsh and cruelly bullying his young soldier, using contempt and...

William's lapse into ingratedom began when he brought me oysters, and I was taken aback by his manner. A girl saw William and nodded three times to him, and William's face grew white as a...

Life's road recedes in our rearview mirror. Backward glance, but can't reverse.