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The $30000 Bequest and Other Stories

CHAPTER V
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4 .-- Programma straordinario, DON CHISCIOTTE--Prezzi populari.
The whole of that is intelligible to me--and sane and rational, too--except the remark about the Inauguration of a Russian Chinese.

That one oversizes my hand.

Give me five cards.
This is a four-page paper; and as it is set in long primer leaded and has a page of advertisements, there is no room for the crimes, disasters, and general sweepings of the outside world--thanks be! Today I find only a single importation of the off-color sort: Una Principessa che fugge con un cocchiere PARIGI, 24 .-- Il MATIN ha da Berlino che la principessa Schovenbare-Waldenbure scomparve il 9 novembre.

Sarebbe partita col suo cocchiere.
La Principassa ha 27 anni.
Twenty-seven years old, and scomparve--scampered--on the 9th November.
You see by the added detail that she departed with her coachman.

I hope Sarebbe has not made a mistake, but I am afraid the chances are that she has.


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