The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales

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Various. The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales

RUSSIAN MYSTERY STORIES

ALEXANDER SERGEIEVITCH PUSHKIN

THE QUEEN OF SPADES

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VERA JELIHOVSKY

THE GENERAL'S WILL

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III

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FEODOR MIKHAILOVITCH DOSTOYEVSKY

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT3

ANTON CHEKHOFF

THE SAFETY MATCH

VSEVOLOD VLADIMIROVITCH KRESTOVSKI

KNIGHTS OF INDUSTRY

I. THE LAST WILL OF THE PRINCESS

II. THE LITHOGRAPHER'S APPRENTICE

III. THE CAVE

IV. THE CAPTAIN OF THE GOLDEN BAND

V. THE KEYS OF THE OLD PRINCESS

VI. REVENGED

VII. BEYOND THE FRONTIER

VIII. BACK TO RUSSIA

IX. THE CONCERT OF THE POWERS

X. AN UNEXPECTED REUNION

XI. THE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM

XII. THE BARONESS AT HOME

XIII. AN EXPLANATION

XIV. GOLD MINING

XV. THE FISH BITES

XVI. GOLD DUST

XVII. THE DELUGE

JÖRGEN WILHELM BERGSÖE

THE AMPUTATED ARMS

OTTO LARSSEN

THE MANUSCRIPT

BERNHARD SEVERIN INGEMANN

THE SEALED ROOM

STEEN STEENSEN BLICHER

THE RECTOR OF VEILBYE

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HUNGARIAN MYSTERY STORIES

FERENCZ MOLNAR

THE LIVING DEATH

MAURUS JOKAI

THIRTEEN AT TABLE

ÉTIENNE BÁRSONY

THE DANCING BEAR

ARTHUR ELCK

THE TOWER ROOM

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There was a card party at the rooms of Naroumoff, of the Horse Guards. The long winter night passed away imperceptibly, and it was five o'clock in the morning before the company sat down to supper. Those who had won ate with a good appetite; the others sat staring absently at their empty plates. When the champagne appeared, however, the conversation became more animated, and all took a part in it.

"And how did you fare, Souirin?" asked the host.

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Like all old people, in general, the Countess suffered from sleeplessness. Having undressed, she seated herself at the window in a Voltaire armchair, and dismissed her maids. The candles were taken away, and once more the room was left with only one lamp burning in it. The Countess sat there looking quite yellow, mumbling with her flaccid lips and swaying to and fro. Her dull eyes expressed complete vacancy of mind, and, looking at her, one would have thought that the rocking of her body was not a voluntary action of her own, but was produced by the action of some concealed galvanic mechanism.

Suddenly the death-like face assumed an inexplicable expression. The lips ceased to tremble, the eyes became animated: before the Countess stood an unknown man.

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