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  • Cognizant although innocent of the murder, the Frenchman will naturally hesitate about replying to the advertisement — about demanding the Ourang-Outang.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • Himself and a companion had captured the Ourang-Outang.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • The screams and struggles of the old lady (during which the hair was torn from her head) had the effect of changing the probably pacific purposes of the Ourang-Outang into those of wrath.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • Ourang-Outang sprang at once through the door of the chamber, down the stairs, and thence, through a window, unfortunately open, into the street.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • I will answer the advertisement, get the Ourang-Outang, and keep it close until this matter has blown over.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • As the ape approached the casement with its mutilated burden, the sailor shrank aghast to the rod, and, rather gliding than clambering down it, hurried at once home — dreading the consequences of the butchery, and gladly abandoning, in his terror, all solicitude about the fate of the Ourang-Outang.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • He handed me a paper, and I read thus: Caught — In the Bois de Boulogne, early in the morning of the — inst., (the morning of the murder,) a very large, tawny Ourang-Outang of the Bornese species.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • The Ourang-Outang must have escaped from the chamber, by the rod, just before the breaking of the door.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • The shutter was kicked open again by the Ourang-Outang as it entered the room.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

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