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Lady Drakmanton comes up with an unorthodox way of dealing with the miserly Misses Smithly-Dubb.

Jocantha decides to share her happiness with the less fortunate through a spot of afternoon philanthropy.

Luitpold Wolkenstein, financier and diplomat, sits in a cafe in Vienna and contemplates news of the rise of the Balkan States.

The residents of the Villa Elsinore lose a baby. Then they find a baby. Then they find another baby.

Vera's aunt, Mrs. Bebberly Cumble, told Vera that old Betsy Mullen was in a bad way about her rent and would have to move into a smaller and cheaper cottage. But she couldn't possibly move away...

When Clovis must back-up his claim that he can produce quality poetry by the square yard, Bertie van Tahn assumes the role of critic.

A man becomes obsessed with the idea that owners might grow to resemble their pets. Then someone buys him a monkey.

Egbert came into the large, dimly lit drawing-room and made a remark about a dim religious light. Don Tarquinio lay on the Persian rug basking in the firelight with superb indifference to the...

Morton Crosby was lazily enjoying a cigarette when a man with a strenuous, unseeing gaze passed and repassed his seat several times. The man's voice broke out with an insinuating inflection and he...

A little stone Saint occupied a retired niche in a side aisle of the old cathedral. The Goblin was a fine specimen of quaint stone carving, and lived up in the corbel on the wall opposite the niche...

When lady Carlotta is mistaken for the Quabarl's new governess, she takes it as an opportunity to try out a few of her own teaching methods.

The terminally dull Septimus of Leighton Buzzard (editor of Cathedral monthly) appears to be having a clandestine affair with the maid of the aunt of Clovis.