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HoaxA hoax is an attempt to trick one or more people into believing something is real that isn't. The status of a given factoid as reliable or hoax is often the subject of considerable controversy.
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Lansing and Strefford were left to watch the departure of the
commented, waving his battered Panama at Clarissa.
"Oh, no, I don't!" Lansing laughed.
"He does. But do you know--" Strefford paused and swung about
don't care to be there. I believe there'll be some crockery
away to his own room, leaving Strefford to philosophize to his
except poor old Nelson? The case.html">case had once seemed amusing
should be so complete an ass. But he would be off the next day,
palace would once more be the property of Nick and Susy. Of all
appreciated it, or knew how it was meant to be lived in; and
became easy to regard the Vanderlyns as mere transient
himself up with his book. He had returned to it with fresh
to finish it quickly. He did not expect that it would bring in
him an opening in the reviews and magazines, and in that case he
purveyor of fiction that he could count on earning a living for
doors. He loved the increasing heat of the Venetian summer, the
sunlight on dark green canals, the smell of half-decayed fruits
build, if he dared, of being tucked away with Susy in the attic
terrace overhanging a scrap of neglected garden--and cheques
should they not settle in Venice if he pulled it off!
He found himself before the church of the Scalzi, and pushing
rose-and-lemon angels in Tiepolo's great vault. It was not a
presently remarked a young lady standing alone near the choir,
vortex, from which she occasionally glanced down at an open
turning, revealed herself as Miss Hicks.
"Ah--you like this too? It's several centuries out of your
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