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The Haunted Hotel

CHAPTER XIX
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'I can't do it for myself,' she remarked, 'my hand trembles so.' She drank the strange mixture eagerly, hot as it was.

'Maraschino punch--will you taste some of it ?' she said.

'I inherit the discovery of this drink.

When your English Queen Caroline was on the Continent, my mother was attached to her Court.

That much injured Royal Person invented, in her happier hours, maraschino punch.


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