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They went down towards the Seine, in despair, shivering with cold. At last they found on the quay one of those ancient noctambulant coupds which, exactly as if they were ashamed to show their...

She saw first of all some bracelets, then a pearl necklace, then a Venetian cross, gold, and precious stones of admirable workmanship. She tried on the ornaments before the glass, hesitated, could not make...

But, by a violent effort, she had conquered her grief, and she replied, with a calm voice, while she wiped her wet cheeks:“Nothing. Only I have no dress, and therefore I can`t go to...

When she sat down to dinner, before the round table covered with a table-cloth three days old, opposite her husband, who uncovered the soup tureen and declared with an enchanted air, “Ah, the good...

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)De Maupassant was born at the Chateau de Miromesnil in 1850. Distinguished though he is as a master of the novel form, and in spite of the fact that his half-dozen...

A few days later the separation took place; the butcher came and brought the money agreed upon. He was asked by Anton to take a draught of wine, and forced to listen to the...

Anton de Chinta appreciated this in an indefinite way, and conse-quently said nothing to the children of the necessity for selling the cow.One Saturday morning at daybreak, he took advantage of the fact that...

But the railway and telegraph furnished incidents of only short duration, and these were soon swallowed up in the sea of solitude which surrounded the meadow “Somonte”; then no living being was to be...

“La Cordera,” having lived to a mature age, was more matter-of- fact than her companions. She held aloof from contact with the world and contemplated the telegraph pole from a distance as purely an...

Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901)Alas, who often wrote under the pseudonym of “Clarin,” was born at Zamora. Studying first for the law, he went to Madrid, where he worked as journalist and literary critic. He was...