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Original Short Stories of Maupassant,
by Guy de Maupassant
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Title: Original Short Stories, Volume 2 (of 13)
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Last Updated: February 12, 2009 Release Date: August 16, 2006 [EBook #3078]
Language: English
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ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, VOLUME 2 (of 13)
By Guy De Maupassant
Translated by:
ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A. MME. QUESADA and Others
VOLUME II.
THE COLONEL'S IDEAS
MOTHER SAUVAGE
EPIPHANY
THE MUSTACHE
MADAME BAPTISTE
THE QUESTION OF LATIN
A MEETING
THE BLIND MAN
INDISCRETION
A FAMILY AFFAIR
BESIDE SCHOPENHAUER'S CORPSE
THE COLONEL'S IDEAS
"Upon my word," said Colonel Laporte, "although I am old and gouty, my legs as stiff as two pieces of wood, yet if a pretty woman were to tell me to go through the eye of a needle, I believe I should take a jump at it, like a clown through a hoop. I shall die like that; it is in the blood. I am an old beau, one of the old school, and the sight of a woman, a pretty woman, stirs me to the tips of my toes. There!
"We are all very much alike in Franc