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    The Girls from Fieu Dayol
    The Girls from Fieu Dayol
    The Girls from Fieu Dayol
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    The Girls from Fieu Dayol

    By Robert F. Young

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    They were lovely and quick to learn—and their only faults were little ones!

    Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateJul 17, 2020
    ISBN9781515446088
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      The Girls from Fieu Dayol - Robert F. Young

      The Girls from Fieu Dayol

      by Robert F. Young

      ©2020 Positronic Publishing

      Cover Photo © Can Stock Photo / dolgachov

      The Girls from Fieu Dayol is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, locales or institutions is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except for brief quotations for review purposes only.

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-4608-8

      The Girls From Fieu Dayol

      They were lovely and quick to learn—and their only faults were little ones!

      Up until the moment when he first looked into Hippolyte Adolphe Taine’s History of English Literature, Herbert Quidley’s penchant for old books had netted him nothing in the way of romance and intrigue. Not that he was a stranger to either. Far from it. But hitherto the background for both had been bedrooms and bars, not libraries.

      On page 21 of the Taine tome he

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