The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Загадочная история Бенджамина Баттона

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Френсис Скотт Фицджеральд. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Загадочная история Бенджамина Баттона

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

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The Rich Boy

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May Day

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Hot and Cold Blood

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The Camel's Back

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“The Sensible Thing”

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The Jelly-Bean

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Gretchen's Forty Winks

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As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the astonishing history I am about to set down will never be known.

I shall tell you what occurred, and let you judge for yourself.

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Benjamin nodded coldly. “Pretty little thing,” he said indifferently. But when the negro boy had led the buggy away, he added: “Dad, you might introduce me to her.”

They approached a group, of which Miss Moncrief was the centre. Reared in the old tradition, she curtsied low before Benjamin. Yes, he might have a dance. He thanked her and walked away-staggered away.

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