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[There Is No Such Thing As Bad Weather][1] (From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1886)
The Ghost of the Blue Chamber (My Uncle’s Story) (From Told After Supper, 1891)
A Personal Explanation
My Own Story
Evergreens (Excerpt) (From Diary of a Pilgrimage and Other Stories, 1891)
The Man Who Would Manage (From Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green, 1893)
The Hobby Rider (From Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green, 1893)
The Man Who Did Not Believe in Luck (From Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green, 1893)
[No Wisdom Like Silence] (From Novel Notes, 1893)
[The Leopard Does Not Change His Spots] (From Novel Notes, 1893)
[Please Your Eye and Plague Your Heart] (From Novel Notes, 1893)
[A Bad Workman Blames His Tools] (From Three Men on the Bummel, 1900)
The Surprise of Mr. Milberry (From Observations of Henry, 1901)
Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies[191] (From The Passing of the Third Floor Back and Other Stories, 1907)
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Things do go so contrary-like with me.[2] I wanted to hit upon an especially novel, out-of-the-way subject for one of these articles. “I will write one paper about something altogether new,” I said to myself; “something that nobody else has ever written or talked about before; and then I can have it all my own way.” And I went about for days, trying to think of something of this kind; and I couldn’t. And Mrs. Cutting, our charwoman, came yesterday – I don’t mind mentioning her name, because I know she will not see this book. She would not look at such a frivolous publication. She never reads anything but the Bible and Lloyd’s Weekly News. All other literature she considers unnecessary and sinful.
She said: “Lor’, sir, you do look worried.”
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He smiled, and gave a little cough. He said he did not like to appear to be boasting, but that, counting trombones, there were seven.
“Dear me!” I replied, “you must have had quite a busy time of it, one way and another.”
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