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    Service with a Smile
    Service with a Smile
    Service with a Smile
    Ebook26 pages15 minutes

    Service with a Smile

    By Paul Orban and Charles Louis Fontenay

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Service with a Smile - Paul Orban

      Project Gutenberg's Service with a Smile, by Charles Louis Fontenay

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Service with a Smile

      Author: Charles Louis Fontenay

      Illustrator: Paul Orban

      Release Date: October 31, 2009 [EBook #30371]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SERVICE WITH A SMILE ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Illustrated by Paul Orban

      Service

      with a

      Smile

      Herbert was truly a gentleman

      robot. The ladies' slightest

      wish was his command....

      BY CHARLES L. FONTENAY

      Herbert bowed with a muted clank—indicating he probably needed oiling somewhere—and presented Alice with a perfect martini on a silver tray. He stood holding the tray, a white, permanent porcelain smile on his smooth metal face, as Alice sipped the drink and grimaced.

      It's a good martini, Herbert, said Alice. Thank you. But, dammit, I wish you didn't have that everlasting smile!

      "I am very sorry, Miss Alice, but I am

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