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By English Authors: Germany, by Various
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Title: Stories By English Authors: Germany
Author: Various
Release Date: March 25, 2006 [EBook #2071]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Produced by Dagny; and John Bickers
STORIES BY ENGLISH AUTHORS
GERMANY AND NORTHERN EUROPE
CONTENTS
THE BIRD ON ITS JOURNEY, Beatrice Harraden KOOSJE: A STUDY OF DUTCH LIFE, John Strange Winter A DOG OF FLANDERS, Ouida MARKHEIM, R. L. Stevenson QUEEN TITA'S WAGER, William Black
THE BIRD ON ITS JOURNEY, By Beatrice Harraden
It was about four in the afternoon when a young girl came into the salon of the little hotel at C---- in Switzerland, and drew her chair up to the fire.
"You are soaked through," said an elderly lady, who was herself trying to get roasted. "You ought to lose no time in changing your clothes."
"I have not anything to change," said the young girl, laughing. "Oh, I shall soon be dry!"
"Have you lost all your luggage?" asked the lady, sympathetically.
"No," said the young girl; "I had none to lose." And she smiled a little mischievously, as though she knew by instinct that her companion's sympathy would at once degenerate into suspicion!
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