The next morning Rainsford woke up and decided he wanted to make General Zaroff's home into his own . He started with the human heads that Zaroff had on his wall, as he went downstairs to the basement to put the heads away he heard a noise. As Rainsford opened the door,he saw a beautiful girl chained up in the corner. “Who are you ?” Rainsford asked as the girl looked at him and quickly turned away “who are you ?” he asked again. “Im ,im Mory” she said softly “ why are you down here chained up?”
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Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." They were farmers, hardworking men who embraced pessimism only when discussing the weather and the crops. There was too much sun, or
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woman thought the vase would match with her four-thousand dollar bookcase she had custom made in France. Rita walked to the counter in the pawnshop and found a sales person. “Hello ma’am, how may I help you?” the sales clerk asked. “Hi sir, I was wondering the cost of this beautiful vase? Rita questioned. “It would be four hundred dollars,” he answered. “Four hundred dollars that is insane! I bet the jewels are not even real,” she roared. “Ma’am this is a one of kind item! How dare you come into my store
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Harder Right — 210 Notes — 222 THE HARDER RIGHT 3 Passing Stranger A WOMAN. Perhaps that’s why. The first and still the only in the clergy association. Or maybe it is because of where she is from. No one from San Francisco had come to live here before. Occasionally an outsider moved to this town, in the northern tier of the state, but the flow is almost always in the other direction, away from, not into. And the few that do come
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after being outfitted with a special made bionic legs by Toni Stark herself, he was able to walk with assistance or a dual canes. He contacted Pepper and informed her of his letter. They made a plan to meet the next Tuesday, May 16th. +++++ +++++ +++++ Toni's apartment is a mess. Of course certain rooms are clean, spotless actually, but most rooms have piles of discarded ideas, and contraptions Toni figured she work out later. There were 8 rooms, not including bathrooms, in the apartment
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was Linder, he was a painter, but he always felt shameful so he didn't draw anything and was depressed. The Wife's name was Helen she was very nice and always felt pity for Linder so she always consoled him. "Wake up, honey" She said as she drew back the curtains. He didn't want to get up, he always thought he was a 'looser' when he get's up and get's ready for the whole day ahead. His wife woke him up but he didn't get up "Wake up, I have to talk with you" said Helen with fury. He listened to his
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world is quite fascinating. IN the ancient land of Greece long ago, there was a beautiful young girl named Alexis. She had beautiful long black hair and the brightest of blue was cast into her eyes. Although Alexis was known for her beauty, she was also very skilled for her archery skills. Alexis often boasted of her skills and beauty. Artemis was walking through the land on earth and she saw Alexis shooting arrows and was fascinated with such unique techniques. Artemis wanted to make Alexis part of
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been in school a while the teacher said; ‘Today we are going to make a picture’ ‘Good!’ Thought the little boy. He liked to make pictures and he could make pictures of all kinds, lions and tigers, chickens and cows, trains and boats. He took out his box of crayons and began to draw. But the teacher said, ‘Wait’ ‘It’s not time to begin!’ And she waited until everyone looked ready. ‘Now’ said the teacher ‘We are going to make flowers’ ‘Good’ thought the little boy. He liked to make flowers and began
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with the Nine-Tails – Korea In the spirit of Halloween, I asked a teacher if Korea had any scary stories. “Kumiho, the Fox with the Nine-Tails”, he said. Of course my interest was peaked and so he said, “Kumiho is a nine-tailed fox who eats the hearts of humans in order to survive. She digs up graves sometimes to find hearts or attacks men.” He couldn’t tell me much more so I dug up some info. Unfortunately it all seems like the information is taken from a commentary on a book that holds the
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her home after she had bought something for cooking. Meanwhile, Roger was loitering on the same street. First, they didn’t see each other but then, Roger recognized her big figure while she continued walking unwittingly. Roger didn’t make up his mind whether to approach her sight or run away. He was in similar dilemma over staying or running away when he was in her home a month ago. They hadn’t met after he left her home and it was really unexpected for him to see her at that time. He felt nervous
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