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O. Henry
Books and Quotes Collection
A Call Loan
1903
Not so circumscribed in expedient for the reduction of surplus wealth were those lairds of the lariat who had womenfolk to their name.
Hygeia at the Solito
1903
He sprang into the saddle easily as a bird, got the quirt from the horn, and gave his pony a slash with it.
Man About Town
1906
People passed, but they held me not. Paphian eyes rayed upon me, and left me unscathed.
Strictly Business
1910
As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]
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A Call Loan
Hygeia at the Solito
Man About Town
Strictly Business