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The Third Day
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Released on: 19/11/2017
tle groom, as usual. There was no news yet in the p
r three days more I expected to finish the last of my own c
s stories, which he had completed before we began the readings. His second story, finis
us by immediately objecting to the trouble of reading his own composition, and by coolly handing it ove
or her sake. Finding that we were all determined, and all against him, he declared that, rather than hear our voices any longer, he would submit to the min
, nevertheless, with the greatest pleasure. It begins in a stable - it gropes its way through a d
himself in a chuckle of supreme satisfaction, and then began to read, w
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The Queen of Hearts
“WE were three quiet, lonely old men, and SHE was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at our wits' end what to do with her. A word about ourselves, first of all - a necessary word, to explain the singular situation of our fair young guest. We are three brothers; and we live in a barbarous, dismal old house called The Glen Tower. Our place of abode stands in a hilly, lonesome district of South Wales. No such thing as a line of railway runs anywhere near us. No gentleman's seat is within an easy drive of us. We are at an unspeakably inconvenient distance from a town, and the village to which we send for our letters is three miles off.”