Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
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AMERICAN • FRENCH, ITALIAN, ETC. ENGLISH: SCOTCH • GERMAN, RUSSIAN, ETC. ENGLISH: IRISH • ORIENTAL: MODERN MAGIC MAUPASSANT • VOLTAIRE MILLE • ALARÇON ADAM • CAPUANA ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN • APULEIUS BALZAC • PLINY, THE YOUNGER She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, wedded, by any rich and distinguished man; and she let herself be married to a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instruction.
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