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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
Journalist
Writer
Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
Oliver Henry
Fairs
Fair
Moved
Pitiless
Spring
Wires
City
Inhabitants
Cities
Manhattan
Soul
Springs
Without
Wire

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