Category: Novels
_I felt some hesitation in offering it, for its main incident cannot be deemed altogether proper; but I have striven that in its expression at least, it should not sin against good taste, and I trust that my endeavours have been successful._
An old lady enters,--two old ladies,--three old ladies, emerging from the doorway one after another with jerking and mechanical salutations, which we return as best we can, full...
5. Chapter 5She was sleeping flat on her face upon the mats, her high headdress and tortoiseshell pins standing out boldly from the rest of the horizontal figure. The train of her tunic pro...
10. Chapter 10The granite stairs, immense, deserted, uniformly gray under the nocturnal sky, seem to vanish into the empty space above us, and when we turn round, to disappear in the depths b...
6. Chapter 6She has placed her dresses and her fine sashes in little closed recesses, hidden in one of the walls of our apartment (the north wall, the only one of the four which will not ta...
9. Chapter 9And then the congregation is not conducive to thoughtful contemplation, for among it we generally discover some acquaintance: my mother-in-law, or a cousin, or the woman from th...
2. Chapter 2We had therefore reached our destination, and found ourselves at the foot of a tall overhanging mountain; probably beyond the limits of the town, in some suburban district. It a...
11. Chapter 11No trees in this elevated region. Fields of tea alternate with tombs: old granite statues which represent Buddha in his lotus, or else old monumental stones on which gleam remai...
8. Chapter 8Towards sunset, Chrysanthème, who has wearied me more than ever since the morning, and who doubtless has perceived it, pulls a very long face, declares herself ill, and begs lea...
4. Chapter 4Moreover, if I roused my past memories, it was the better to force myself to notice the difference between that 14th of July last year, so peacefully spent amidst surroundings f...
7. Chapter 7At eight o'clock, at nightfall, our maneuver being at an end, I embarked with Yves on board a sampan; this time it is he who is carrying me off and taking me back to my home.
1. Chapter 1_I felt some hesitation in offering it, for its main incident cannot be deemed altogether proper; but I have striven that in its expression at least, it should not sin against g...
12. Chapter 12The three ladies are going to turn back home, for the night is already far advanced, and lower down, the cosmopolitan quarters near the quays are not safe at this unusual hour.
13. Chapter 13MACY, JOHN The Spirit of American Literature 56 MAUPASSANT, GUY DE Love and Other Stories 72 MAUPASSANT, GUY DE Mademoiselle Fifi, and Twelve Other Stories 8 MAUPASSANT, GUY DE...