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FOUND FOUND FOUND ON ON ON A A DRO DROWNED DRO WNED MAN MAN Madame, you ask me whether I am laughing at you? You cannot believe that a man has never been in love. Well, then, no, no, I have never loved, never! Why is this? I really cannot tell. I have never experienced that intoxication of the heart which we call love! Never have I lived in that dream, in that exaltation, in that state of madness into which the image of a woman casts us. I have never been pursued, haunted, roused to fever heat, lifted up to Paradise by the thought of meeting, or by the possession of, a being who had suddenly become for me more desirable than any good fortune, more beautiful than any other creature, of more consequence than the whole world! I have never wept, I have never suffered on account of any of you. I have not passed my nights sleepless, while thinking of her. I have no experience of waking thoughts bright with thought and memories of her. I have never known the wild rapture of hope before her arrival, or the divine sadness of regret when she went from me, leaving behind her a delicate odor of violet powder. I have never been in love. Found on a Drowned Man 28 I have also often asked myself why this is. And truly I can scarcely tell. Nevertheless I have found some reasons for it; but they are of a metaphysical character, and perhaps you will not be able to appreciate them. I suppose I am too critical of women to submit to their fascination. I ask you to forgive me for this remark. I will explain what I mean. In every creature there is a moral being and a physical being. In order to love, it would be necessary for me to find a harmony between these two beings which I have never found. One always predominates; sometimes the moral, sometimes the physical. The intellect which we have a right to require in a woman, in order to love her, is not the same as the virile intellect. It is more, and it is less. A woman must be frank, delicate, sensitive, refined, impressionable. She has no need of either power or initiative in thought, but she must have kindness, elegance, tenderness, coquetry and that faculty of assimilation which, in a little while, raises her to an equality with him who shares her life. Her greatest quality must be tact, that subtle sense which is to the mind what touch is to the body. It reveals to her a thousand little things, contours, angles and forms on the plane of the intellectual. Very frequently pretty women have not intellect to corre-
spond with their personal charms. Now, the slightest lack of harmony strikes me and pains me at the first glance. In friendship this is not of importance. Friendship is a compact in which one fairly shares defects and merits. We may judge of friends, whether man or woman, giving them credit for what is good, and overlooking what is bad in them, appreciating them at their just value, while giving ourselves up to an intimate, intense and charming sympathy. In order to love, one must be blind, surrender one’s self absolutely, see nothing, question nothing, understand nothing. One must adore the weakness as well as the beauty of the beloved object, renounce all judgment, all reflection, all perspicacity. I am incapable of such blindness and rebel at unreasoning subjugation. This is not all. I have such a high and subtle idea of harmony that nothing can ever fulfill my ideal. But you will call me a madman. Listen to me. A woman, in my opinion, may have an exquisite soul and charming body without that body and that soul being in perfect harmony with one another. I mean that persons who have noses made in a certain shape should not be expected to think in a certain fashion. The fat have no right to make use of the same words and phrases as the thin. You, who have blue eyes, madame, cannot look at life and judge of things and events as if you had black eyes. The Guy de Maupassant 29 shade of your eyes should correspond, by a sort of fatality, with the shade of your thought. In perceiving these things, I have the scent of a bloodhound. Laugh if you like, but it is so. And yet, once I imagined that I was in love for an hour, for a day. I had foolishly yielded to the influence of surrounding circumstances. I allowed myself to be beguiled by a mirage of Dawn. Would you like me to tell you this short story? I met, one evening, a pretty, enthusiastic little woman who took a poetic fancy to spend a night with me in a boat on a river. I would have preferred a room and a bed; however, I consented to the river and the boat. It was in the month of June. My fair companion chose a moonlight night in order the better to stimulate her imagination. We had dined at a riverside inn and set out in the boat about ten o’clock. I thought it a rather foolish kind of adventure, but as my companion pleased me I did not worry about it. I sat down on the seat facing her; I seized the oars, and off we starred. I could not deny that the scene was picturesque. We glided past a wooded isle full of nightingales, and the current carried us rapidly over the river covered with silvery ripples. The tree toads uttered their shrill, monotonous cry; the frogs croaked in the grass by the river’s bank, and the lapping of the water as it flowed on made around us a kind of confused murmur almost
Page 1 and 2: Volume Two Of THE THE ENTIRE ENTIRE
Page 3 and 4: Contents Contents VOLUME VIII......
Page 5 and 6: THE WILL ..........................
Page 7 and 8: THE ENGLISHMAN OF ETRETAT .........
Page 9 and 10: Well, every Thursday Mother Clochet
Page 11 and 12: doubt, flattered at being chosen by
Page 13 and 14: arts, great events, customs, wars,
Page 15 and 16: All three of us were together in th
Page 17 and 18: “They are officers of the Legion
Page 19 and 20: One day, when he came to lunch with
Page 21 and 22: THE THE TEST TEST The Bondels were
Page 23 and 24: me. This gentleman is no fool. He s
Page 25 and 26: But why did she grow so angry? She
Page 27: they looked at each other without s
Page 31 and 32: She said: “I would rather capsize
Page 33 and 34: THE THE O OORPHAN O ORPHAN RPHAN Ma
Page 35 and 36: that mute, eternal companionship an
Page 37 and 38: Twice she went again to consult her
Page 39 and 40: Moreover, the old lady often threw
Page 41 and 42: ting his crutches slip to the groun
Page 43 and 44: THE THE RABBIT RABBIT Old Lecacheur
Page 45 and 46: “As for knowing him, I do not, as
Page 47 and 48: “You are a novice, my good woman.
Page 49 and 50: “Why, of course not, of course no
Page 51 and 52: and she laughed heartily, gently ri
Page 53 and 54: ing she had tried to hit him, and h
Page 55 and 56: “Well, Uncle Jules had visibly di
Page 57 and 58: “However, I remained beside my mo
Page 59 and 60: “‘That is my uncle, the brother
Page 61 and 62: “‘Are they sincere? Are they pr
Page 63 and 64: canvases, borrowed money from his f
Page 65 and 66: A A V VVAGABOND V AGABOND He was a
Page 67 and 68: hogs!” And the pain in his limbs,
Page 69 and 70: with a sudden desire to defy them,
Page 71 and 72: Randel went off without replying or
Page 73 and 74: her by the shoulders, and without a
Page 75 and 76: “I will continue. We used to go t
Page 77 and 78: 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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ich, his father and he. Alone with
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the narrow windows, and he heard th
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early riser, had not yet made his a
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The men uttered shouts, banged the
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In order to see him, to give his me
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He replied: “I’m quite well, th
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ties whom he instinctively distrust
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VOLUME X THE THE CHRISTENING CHRIST
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no surprise nor did he quicken his
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THE THE THE F FFARMER’S F ARMER
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“Better than that, my dear fellow
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“‘What is it, my dear Jean?’
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THE THE DEVIL DEVIL The peasant and
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ow or longer, so much the better fo
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At nightfall Honore returned, and w
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THE THE SNIPE SNIPE Old Baron des R
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THE THE WILL WILL I knew that tall
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My friend stopped talking abruptly,
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WAL AL ALTER AL TER SCHNAFFS’ SCH
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disturbing reflections and fresh te
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And abruptly, without reflection, h
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Scouts were sent ahead to reconnoit
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The smack started off again, riding
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to pour water on the stump of arm t
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of disenchantment, from which it ta
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of flowers floated in the neat path
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“When one considers that these im
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eyes, a pale blue with two tiny bla
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“I slept in my old room, and all
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to make his life less hard. He is a
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itself to me. Who knows? A piece of
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do on condition that we went immedi
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“I took her hand in some confusio
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“I was stealthily returning to my
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glasses dance, and cried with the a
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The weather was severe; it was free
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As he had foreseen, the man was bur
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LASTING LASTING LO LOVE LO VE It wa
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passionately that he screamed, in f
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“‘She also left her old horse a
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mal. She even went so far as to lik
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she added: “If we could throw him
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out of open door and windows and an
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oys, went in search of their master
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“As the fees coming from the Virg
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fied (one could go on drinking it u
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She was a little woman of about for
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Oreille utterly rebelled at such an
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“That is quite enough, monsieur;
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value to put on it, but at last she
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The three horses awoke and, tossing
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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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