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The Firefly of France (Webster's Chinese Traditional Thesaurus Edition)

BY Marion Polk Angellotti

2019-04-11 22:04:57

The restaurant of the Hotel St. Ives seems, as I look back on it, an odd spot to have served as stage wings for a melodrama, pure and simple. Yet a melodrama did begin there. No other word fits the case. The inns of the Middle Ages, which, I believe, ... Read more
The restaurant of the Hotel St. Ives seems, as I look back on it, an odd spot to have served as stage wings for a melodrama, pure and simple. Yet a melodrama did begin there. No other word fits the case. The inns of the Middle Ages, which, I believe, reeked with trap-doors and cutthroats, pistols and poisoned daggers, offered nothing weirder than my experience, with its first scene set beneath this roof. The food there is superperfect, every luxury surrounds you, millionaires and traveling princes are your fellow-guests. Still, sooner than pass another night there, I would sleep airily in Central Park, and if I had a friend seeking New York quarters, I would guide him toward some other place. Less

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File size165.307 KB
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PublisherPublic Domain Books
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Marion Polk Angellotti
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Marion Polk Angellotti (12 November 1887 - April 1975)[1] was an American author. She wrote short stories for pulp magazines such as Adventure,[2] including several based on 14th-century condottiere J...

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