Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

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Taylor Bayard. Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

A STORY OF OLD RUSSIA

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II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

TALES OF HOME

THE STRANGE FRIEND

JACOB FLINT'S JOURNEY

CAN A LIFE HIDE ITSELF?

TWIN-LOVE

THE EXPERIENCES OF THE A. C

FRIEND ELI'S DAUGHTER

I

II

III

IV

V

MISS BARTRAM'S TROUBLE

I

II

III

MRS. STRONGITHARM'S REPORT

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Bayard Taylor

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Sasha was dispatched to bring the poet, that he might receive his well-earned praise and reward. But alas for Simon Petrovitch? His legs had already doubled under him. He was awarded fifty rubles and a new caftan, which he was not in a condition to accept until several days afterward.

The supper which followed resembled the dinner, except that there were fewer dishes and more bottles. When the closing course of sweatmeats had either been consumed or transferred to the pockets of the guests, the Princess Martha retired with the ladies. The guests of lower rank followed; and there remained only some fifteen or twenty, who were thereupon conducted by Prince Alexis to a smaller chamber, where he pulled off his coat, lit his pipe, and called for brandy. The others followed his example, and their revelry wore out the night.

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