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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...

Thus were they fighting nigh an hour; for this Sir Mador was a full strong knight, and mightily proved in many strong battles. But, at the last, the knight smote Sir Mador groveling upon...

And so he came to Sir Bors, and said, “Fair knight, I pray you, be not displeased, for here must a better knight than ye are have this battle; therefore I pray you to...

And so when the King was come with the Queen, and many knights of the Round Table, then the Queen was put there in the constable`s ward, and there was made a great fire...

Many knights anwered him again, and said, “As for our most noble King Arthur, we love him and honor him as well as ye do; but as for Queen Guenever, we love her not,...