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Their memory haunts me, obsesses me, torments me, remains with me like a wound. Why? I do not know. The Son No doubt you think that very absurd? THE THE SON SON 260 The two old friends were walking in the garden in bloom, where spring was bringing everything to life. One was a senator, the other a member of the French Academy, both serious men, full of very logical but solemn arguments, men of note and reputation. They talked first of politics, exchanging opinions; not on ideas, but on men, personalities in this regard taking the predominance over ability. Then they recalled some memories. Then they walked along in silence, enervated by the warmth of the air. A large bed of wallflowers breathed out a delicate sweetness. A mass of flowers of all species and color flung their fragrance to the breeze, while a cytisus covered with yellow clusters scattered its fine pollen abroad, a golden cloud, with an odor of honey that bore its balmy seed across space, similar to the sachet-powders of perfumers. The senator stopped, breathed in the cloud of floating pollen, looked at the fertile shrub, yellow as the sun, whose seed was floating in the air, and said:
“When one considers that these imperceptible fragrant atoms will create existences at a hundred leagues from here, will send a thrill through the fibres and sap of female trees and produce beings with roots, growing from a germ, just as we do, mortal like ourselves, and who will be replaced by other beings of the same order, like ourselves again!” And, standing in front of the brilliant cytisus, whose live pollen was shaken off by each breath of air, the senator added: “Ah, old fellow, if you had to keep count of all your children you would be mightily embarrassed. Here is one who generates freely, and then lets them go without a pang and troubles himself no more about them.” “We do the same, my friend,” said the academician. “Yes, I do not deny it; we let them go sometimes,” resumed the senator, “but we are aware that we do, and that constitutes our superiority.” “No, that is not what I mean,” said the other, shaking his head. “You see, my friend, that there is scarcely a man who has not some children that he does not know, children—’father unknown’—whom he has generated almost unconsciously, just as this tree reproduces. “If we had to keep account of our amours, we should be just as embarrassed as this cytisus which you apostrophized would Guy de Maupassant 261 be in counting up his descendants, should we not? “From eighteen to forty years, in fact, counting in every chance cursory acquaintanceship, we may well say that we have been intimate with two or three hundred women. “Well, then, my friend, among this number can you be sure that you have not had children by at least one of them, and that you have not in the streets, or in the bagnio, some blackguard of a son who steals from and murders decent people, i.e., ourselves; or else a daughter in some disreputable place, or, if she has the good fortune to be deserted by her mother, as cook in some family? “Consider, also, that almost all those whom we call ‘prostitutes’ have one or two children of whose paternal parentage they are ignorant, generated by chance at the price of ten or twenty francs. In every business there is profit and loss. These wildings constitute the ‘loss’ in their profession. Who generated them? You—I—we all did, the men called ‘gentlemen’! They are the consequences of our jovial little dinners, of our gay evenings, of those hours when our comfortable physical being impels us to chance liaisons. “Thieves, marauders, all these wretches, in fact, are our children. And that is better for us than if we were their children, for those scoundrels generate also!
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Volume Two Of THE THE ENTIRE ENTIRE
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Contents Contents VOLUME VIII......
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THE WILL ..........................
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THE ENGLISHMAN OF ETRETAT .........
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Well, every Thursday Mother Clochet
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doubt, flattered at being chosen by
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arts, great events, customs, wars,
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All three of us were together in th
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“They are officers of the Legion
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One day, when he came to lunch with
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THE THE TEST TEST The Bondels were
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me. This gentleman is no fool. He s
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But why did she grow so angry? She
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they looked at each other without s
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spond with their personal charms. N
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She said: “I would rather capsize
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THE THE O OORPHAN O ORPHAN RPHAN Ma
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that mute, eternal companionship an
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Twice she went again to consult her
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Moreover, the old lady often threw
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ting his crutches slip to the groun
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THE THE RABBIT RABBIT Old Lecacheur
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“As for knowing him, I do not, as
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“You are a novice, my good woman.
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“Why, of course not, of course no
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and she laughed heartily, gently ri
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ing she had tried to hit him, and h
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“Well, Uncle Jules had visibly di
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“However, I remained beside my mo
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“‘That is my uncle, the brother
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“‘Are they sincere? Are they pr
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canvases, borrowed money from his f
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A A V VVAGABOND V AGABOND He was a
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hogs!” And the pain in his limbs,
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with a sudden desire to defy them,
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Randel went off without replying or
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her by the shoulders, and without a
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“I will continue. We used to go t
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don; my anger carried me away. Well
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The witnesses having given testimon
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After dinner I went for a stroll in
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a vault. I turned round to see what
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pigeons who must be a hundred and t
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like, alone with this young fellow
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not long to see her face again, no.
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her, eat her, make her part of hims
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He replied calmly: “It is a very
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If he had ever loved a woman in his
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They remained side by side, motionl
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THE THE THE P PPARROT P PARROT ARRO
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up a new cargo of insults and bring
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Suddenly she remembered the loft, i
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ness maker, on his doorstep staring
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“You will not make me believe, Ma
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and even of boasting of it as a goo
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to be particularly annoyed at her h
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But Toine’s wife soon became insu
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from her husband to her fowls, devo
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MADAME MADAME HUSSON’S HUSSON’S
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Gisors despises Gournay, but Gourna
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learned societies; History of Gisor
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Josephine Durdent, who is not belie
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emember which one, while visiting G
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Mme. Husson wiped her eyes, in her
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ters passed between the mayor and t
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THE THE ADOPTED ADOPTED SON SON The
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of what his wife said by a continue
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young man said, brutally: “Yes, I
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eflect. He would have to find secon
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toward the bell, to wake his valet,
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“Is the other man practiced in th
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“He was my office chum. The rasca
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“We rose. Solvin whispered “‘
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as soon as it was brought in, she s
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any apparent cause. But how sensiti
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She will be no more. Everything in
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house; it would dry the walls. I as
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Night came on. She went up to her r
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SUNDA SUNDAYS SUNDA YS OF OF A A A
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to the Republic, or perhaps the bad
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excellent quality of the cloth. He
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ing for him. The latter greeted him
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order to win the consideration of t
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ing, where there was a mixture of e
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open beside him, and in his right h
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gossip bedecked in red, white and b
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on such and such a day at such an h
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smiled at him in such a disturbing
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the ridiculous awkwardness of elega
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ter that they settled down seriousl
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“Well, gentlemen! only a century
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This time there was no answer. But
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As soon as I was unperceived I bega
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“If monsieur will kindly allow us
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OUR OUR LETTERS LETTERS Eight hours
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did not confide in me, but in the p
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souls which we do not know, and whi
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This time the old grandmother appea
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FRIEND RIEND JOSEPH JOSEPH JOSEPH T
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which he judged suitable to the sur
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nounced to Joseph Mouradour that th
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a pair of stockings that she said I
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A man who was passing, with a whip
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Cesaire always hesitated, because h
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However, as Belhomme seemed angry a
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ten little beast!” and he spat on
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things are traps set for the marria
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THE THE ACCURSED ACCURSED BREAD BRE
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self, looked with fatherly pride at
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THE THE DO DOWR DO WR WRY WR The ma
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She had no time to answer. The cond
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She had two francs in her pocket. T
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kill man too. Long ago this need wa
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lood flow, it seems to me I should
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enthusiasm, jigged about with such
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five! But we must get him to bed, o
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some, with his mustache and curly h
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young birds are grown they all fly
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“What, you must leave? And why?
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self: “If the expression be the r
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He devoured the dishes on the table
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“On growing older, I had become p
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“Then I travelled over my whole l
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and Jean came to me and said: ‘Th
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“The husband, who was surprised,
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tastic, improbable, disconnected; a
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you!” And he left them. Guy de Ma
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A murmur of approval rose among the
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“But I—I—I have none.” Then
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veloped in flame, like demons, thei
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VOLUME XII THE THE THE CHILD CHILD
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But the little fellow loved only ca
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still. She knocked; no answer. Then
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She was a stout woman, of about thi
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oating cap in his hand, he politely
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to think, a lassitude in her limbs
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girl. At last they got back to Bezo
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The sun disappears behind Esterel,
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would rub and massage me while I do
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ROSALIE ROSALIE PRUDENT PRUDENT The
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sent away, but I wanted to stay in
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ing themselves, and he will no long
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day when they took place. Why had s
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She began to laugh as only a happy
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very bed shook with her nervous mov
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again in the dim and distant past-t
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grazing; then, treacherously sneaki
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DEAD DEAD WOMAN’S WOMAN’S SECRE
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ents, whom we never knew, but whose
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you keep on thinking of her. Who is
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“Yes. No—I am like a lost dog,
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MADEMOISELLE MADEMOISELLE CO COCOTT
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They reached the beach, and he chos
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efore; a solitude of stone, ten lea
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“Next, St. Lucia killed, one afte
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y the river, we were overtaken by t
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VOLUME XIII OLD OLD OLD JUDAS JUDAS
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The priest, having heard that the
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“Just this. You shall sell it to
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place when you are in Spreville? Th
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BOITELLE BOITELLE Father Boitelle (
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dwelt constantly, to watch the blac
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however, up to their arrival at the
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out into the road to see the “bla
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made of blond hair, which she had o
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“I was amused at this childish te
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nothing. But a monkey! Was that not
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The world would be gayer if one cou
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vinced that not a week passed witho
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A A F FFATHER’S F THER’S CONFES
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ened gradually, their mind must bec
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asking myself whence come those tem
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“She is an abominable woman,” h
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“One day some travelling showmen
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to me an object of suspicion, and I
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A A PO PORTRAIT PO TRAIT TRAIT “H
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she is posing first of all before t
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without anything to warm you up. Wh
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Gently he sat up. Again he waited a
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stopped her, and stupidly, without
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“A woman,” he said, “is alway
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a veritable child of the wardrobe,
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Now I wanted to know about it, and
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I came to a valley of stones, and f
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drilles. A rumor was presently circ
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pyre were lighted and then the wood
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MISTI MISTI I was very much interes
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The latter, old, wrinkled, her eyes
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I was astonished. “Uneasy? Uneasy
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He continued to reason with her and
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His tutor, a priest, watched beside
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a pane of glass between you and him
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up the fight and desire to put an e
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every three months as we do with ou
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“A gas of our own invention. We h
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