title: A Monstrous Regiment of Women
author:  Laurie R. King 
description: In <a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0312104235/${0}">The Beekeeper's Apprentice</a>, Laurie R. King came up with a completely original story that had Sherlock Holmes as one of its principal characters but was in no way part of the Holmes canon. The focus of that book was a young woman, Mary Russell. Now in <b>A Monstrous Regiment of Women</b>, Mary Russell's adventures as a student of the famous detective continue. A series of murders claims members of a strange suffrage organization's wealthy young female volunteers, and Mary, with Holmes in the background, investigates, little knowing what danger she personally faces.
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  # Original Maupassant Short Stories, Vol. 2.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Guy de Maupassant
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### THE COLONEL'S IDEAS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Upon my word," said Colonel Laporte, "although I am old and gouty, my
  
  
  legs as stiff as two pieces of wood, yet if a pretty woman were to tell
  
  
  me to go through the eye of a needle, I believe I should take a jump at
  
  
  it, like a clown through a hoop. I shall die like that; it is in the
  
  
  blood. I am an old beau, one of the old school, and the sight of a
  
  
  woman, a pretty woman, stirs me to the tips of my toes. There!
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "We are all very much alike in France in this respect; we still remain
  
  
  knights, knights of love and fortune, since God has been abolished whose
  
  
  bodyguard we really were. But nobody can ever get woman out of our
  
  
  hearts; there she is, and there she will remain, and we love her, and
  
  
  shall continue to love her, and go on committing all kinds of follies on
  
  
  her account