The Orchard of Tears

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Sax Rohmer. The Orchard of Tears

The Orchard of Tears

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THE ORCHARD OF TEARS

PART FIRST

AT LOWER CHARLESWOOD

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PART SECOND

FLAMBY IN LONDON

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PART THIRD

THE KEY

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Sax Rohmer

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Mrs. Duveen repeated the curtsey. "Will it please you to step in, sirs," she said, her eyes fixed upon Don's face in a sort of eager scrutiny. "It is surely kind of you to come, sir"—to Don.

They entered a small living room, stuffy because of the characteristically closed windows, but marked by a neatness of its appointments for which the gipsy appearance of Mrs. Duveen had not prepared them. There were several unframed drawings in pastel and water-colour, of birds and animals, upon the walls, and above the little mantelshelf hung a gleaming German helmet, surmounted by a golden eagle. On the mantelshelf itself were fuses, bombs and shell-cases, a china clock under a glass dome, and a cabinet photograph of a handsome man in the uniform of a sergeant of Irish Guards. Before the clock, and resting against it so as to occupy the place of honour, was a silver cigarette case.

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