Word: hoards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Captain Owen was killed. To pay a debt of hospitality and to hoard more memories of him, his family asked Madame Vervier to let them have Alix for the Winter. To keep Alix innocent and to put her in the way of a safe marriage, Madame Vervier was more than willing...
...ruined, although she is the wealthy widow of a man who had become a Baron and died at the height of his glory. Ulrika's life has simply been lived?she has had a good time, but it is over, and she has retired to her country house to hoard, with what is apparently a congenial avariciousness among Viennese, the fortune she has amassed. And then the author introduces the extraordinarily beautiful, self-possessed and unspotted grandchild of Josephine. The two women fight for her and Josephine wins...
...Moon-Flower. Here romance rivals roulette at Monte Carlo as a game of chance. The speculative plunger is a penniless law clerk from Hungary who comes with his little hoard for a fling; his prize is the official sweetheart of a wealthy Duke. The starveling dreamer dares to aspire to her love, and the great courtesan yields to him. She hopes to spite the Duke, who has ordered her to Paris to avoid a marital collision with his wife. Love awakens in her frostily brilliant eyes at the youth's touch, but she realizes her arms will...
...Story. Master Gunner Peyrol, old Brother of the Coast, white-haired rover of the outer seas, returned to Toulon some years, before Trafalgar with a hoard of gold mohurs, ducats, guineas stowed away in a canvas jacket next his skin and a case of razors looted from an English prize, intending to spend his last days near the village where he was born, the village he had not seen for 50 years. He found lodging at the Escampobar farm-lodging and the strangest adventure of his life...
Anselmo Bonin, accustomed to boasting that he had a great fortune in gold and who was always ready to lend to his neighbors, was disturbed by a visit from four masked bandits. Bonin refused to divulge the hiding place of his gold hoard and the bandits first beat him " until his body was a mass of blood and bruises," then broke his bones. The victim was reported unwilling to speak, so the bandits roasted him over a fire in the kitchen hearth; then left him for dead. Bonin was not dead! No trace of the inquisitioners was found...