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Horla Part I
In which a Prussian commandant and his officers endure the dreary confinement and relentless Normandy rain within the battered chateau of Urville, their days marked by idleness and the wear of occupation. Among them is the dandyish sub-lieutenant mockingly dubbed "Mademoiselle Fifi," whose ostentation contrasts with the sombre historical portraits and the echoes of violence that scar their surroundings.
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