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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
bookshelves: gutenberg-project, e-book, mystery-thriller, 3m-bookshelf-challenge, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, published-1914, summer-2012
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Wanda
Read from July 29 to August 04, 2012
Opening: I was not the only passenger aboard the S.S. Mandalay who perceived the disturbance and wondered what it might portend and from whence proceed. A goodly number of passengers were joining the ship at Port Said. I was lounging against the rail, pipe in mouth, lazily wondering, with a large vagueness.
What a heterogeneous rabble it was!--a brightly coloured rabble, but the colours all were dirty, like the town and the canal. Only the sky was clean; the sky and the hard, merciless sunlight which spared nothing of the uncleanness, and defied one even to think of the term dear to tourists, "picturesque." I was in that kind of mood. All the natives appeared to be pockmarked; all the Europeans greasy with perspiration.
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