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On expedition, Quatermain, while searching for ivory, meets Maiwa, a runaway African princess who is intent on avenging her child. She also carries a desperate note from an old friend, once thought dead. Braving buffalo, rhinos, elephants, and rivaling tribes, Quatermain finds himself in the middle of a plot to wage war on the notorious African chief..." data-title="Книга Maiwa’s Revenge">

In the first, “Pierette,” a young woman is sent to live with her aunt and uncle, an unmarried brother and sister who view her as a leech on their business earnings and hound her beyond endurance.

In the second, “The Vicar of Tours,” a socially unaware priest who has inherited the furniture, books, and rooms in a lodging house of a fellow priest, is put to grief by his landlord, an elderly unmarried woman who takes her new lodger’s social awkwardness for insults and decides to retaliate.

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