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  • THE STORY OF FIFINE
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    THE STORY OF FIFINE
    BERNARD CAPES
    Excerpt: "I always come back to Paris or to London as to a rich feast after abstinence. There are the reserves of perfect health to draw upon for its enjoyment; and I enjoy it while the reserves last. But, on the first sign of their depletion, I return to my lentils and spring water, which can stand my happiness in quite as good stead as young partridges and Montrachet. So the ...

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  • MOLL DAVIS A COMEDY
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    MOLL DAVIS A COMEDY
    BERNARD CAPES
    Excerpt: “Somewhere about the western angle now formed by the junction of Oxford Street and the Charing Cross Road, there stood in the year 1661 “The Mischief” Inn. It was a substantial building, consisting of two gabled sections, divided by a third and wider having a pent-roof, and forming with the others a deep recess, in whose ground quarters was plentiful accommodation for ...

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  • WHERE ENGLAND SETS HER FEET, A ROMANCE
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    WHERE ENGLAND SETS HER FEET, A ROMANCE
    BERNARD CAPES
    Excerpt: “When, in the second year of Elizabeth, the Act of Supremacy was passed, there were found only some two hundred in all of the clergy bold enough to dissent from it. Many, it is true, who conformed, did so without sincerity, fearing to lose their livings, and of these was Mr Robert Angell, Vicar of Clapham, or Clappenham village in Surrey, which was in the advowson of t...

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  • THE EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSIONS OF DIANA PLEASE
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    THE EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSIONS OF DIANA PLEASE
    BERNARD CAPES
    Excerpt: “If the public seeks any apology for this introduction to it, at a late date, of the extraordinary woman whose self-dictated Memoirs form the staple of the following pages, it must look for it in the references of her contemporaries; it will be far from gathering it from her own autobiography. Diane Rosemonde de St. Croix (to give her her proper mother-title) considere...

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  • ADVENTURES OF THE COMTE DE LA MUETTE DURING THE REIGN OF TERROR
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    ADVENTURES OF THE COMTE DE LA MUETTE DURING THE REIGN OF TERROR
    BERNARD CAPES
    Excerpt: “One morning I awoke in La Bourbe and looked across at Deputy Bertrand as he lay sprawled over his truckle-bed, his black hair like a girl’s scattered on the pillow, his eyelids glued to his flushed cheeks, his face, all blossoming with dissipation, set into the expression of one who is sure of nothing but of his own present surrender to nothingness. Beside him were hi...

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  • A ROGUE'S TRAGEDY
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    A ROGUE'S TRAGEDY
    BERNARD CAPES
    Excerpt: "Matter is but the eternal dressing of the imagination; the world the unconscious self-delusion of a Spirit. Everything springs from Love, and Love is the dreaming God. Two figments of that endless sweet obsession stood alone—high on a slope of Alp this time. Born of a dream to flesh, they thought they owed themselves to flesh—a sacred debt. Truth seemed as plain to th...

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  • A JAY OF ITALY
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    A JAY OF ITALY
    BERNARD CAPES
    Excerpt: "On a hot morning, in the year 1476 of poignant memory, there drew up before an osteria on the Milan road a fair cavalcade of travellers. These were Messer Carlo Lanti and his inamorata, together with a suite of tentmen, pages, falconers, bed-carriers, and other personnel of a migratory lord on his way from the cooling hills to the Indian summer of the plains. The chie...

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  • OUR LADY OF DARKNESS
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    OUR LADY OF DARKNESS
    BERNARD CAPES
    Excerpt: "From two till four o’clock on any summer afternoon during the penultimate decade of the last century, the Right Honourable Gustavus Hilary George, third Viscount Murk, Baron Brindle and Knight of the Stews, with orders of demerit innumerable—and, over his quarterings, that bar-sinister which would appear to be designed for emphasis of the fact that the word rank has a...

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  • THE LAKE OF WINE
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    THE LAKE OF WINE
    BERNARD CAPES
    Excerpt: "Some time in June of the year 1800 (as privately chronicled) there came a famous evening at Whitelaw’s Club in St. James’s Street, off Piccadilly, London. There and then—according to the unattested evidence of an eyewitness—Mr. Ladislaw lost his head, Lord Dunlone his mistress, Sir Robert Linne his fortune, and Major Dalrymple his life. Thus it appears these four were...

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  • AT A WINTER'S FIRE
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    AT A WINTER'S FIRE
    BERNARD EDWARD JOSEPH CAPES
    In the safe sheltered comfort of a winter's fire, as the title suggests, these stories of horror will rouse tolerable shudders; but elsewhere they had best be avoided. They are worse than ghost stories, for they haunt the mind even more than they work on the nerves. Even the cheerful nightmares among them, like "Dinah's Mammoth," and such flippant ones as "William Tyrwhitt's 'C...

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