Chapter 1

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FROMONT AND RISLER

By Alphonse Daudet

A man may forgive, but he never forgets

Abundant details which he sometimes volunteered

Affectation of indifference

Always smiling condescendingly

Charm of that one day's rest and its solemnity

Clashing knives and forks mark time

Convent of Saint Joseph, four shoes under the bed!

Deeming every sort of occupation beneath him

Dreams of wealth and the disasters that immediately followed

Exaggerated dramatic pantomime

Faces taken by surprise allow their real thoughts to be seen

He fixed the time mentally when he would speak

Little feathers fluttering for an opportunity to fly away

Make for themselves a horizon of the neighboring walls and roofs

No one has ever been able to find out what her thoughts were

Pass half the day in procuring two cakes, worth three sous

She was of those who disdain no compliment

Such artificial enjoyment, such idiotic laughter

Superiority of the man who does nothing over the man who works

Terrible revenge she would take hereafter for her sufferings

The poor must pay for all their enjoyments

The groom isn't handsome, but the bride's as pretty as a picture

Void in her heart, a place made ready for disasters to come

Wiping his forehead ostentatiously

Word "sacrifice," so vague on careless lips

Would have liked him to be blind only so far as he was concerned

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