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Guy de Maupassant. Mont Oriol; or, A Romance of Auvergne
Mont Oriol; or, A Romance of Auvergne
Table of Contents
MONT ORIOL
CHAPTER I. THE SPA
CHAPTER II. THE DISCOVERY
CHAPTER III. BARGAINING
CHAPTER IV. A TEST AND AN AVOWAL
CHAPTER V. DEVELOPMENTS
CHAPTER VI. ON THE BRINK
CHAPTER VII. ATTAINMENT
CHAPTER VIII. ORGANIZATION
CHAPTER IX. THE SPA AGAIN
CHAPTER X. GONTRAN'S CHOICE
CHAPTER XI. A MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER XII. A Betrothal
CHAPTER XIII. Paul Changes His Mind
CHAPTER XIV. Christiane's Via Crucis
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Guy de Maupassant
A Novel
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At the end of the establishment they suddenly perceived the orchestra under a Chinese kiosque. A fair-haired young man, frantically playing the violin, was conducting with movements of his head. His hair was shaking from one side to the other in the effort to keep time, and his entire torso bent forward and rose up again, swaying from left to right, like the stick of the leader of an orchestra. Facing him sat three strange-looking musicians. This was the maestro, Saint Landri.
He and his assistants—a pianist, whose instrument, mounted on rollers, was wheeled each morning from the vestibule of the baths to the kiosque; an enormous flautist, who presented the appearance of sucking a match while tickling it with his big swollen fingers, and a double-bass of consumptive aspect—produced with much fatigue this perfect imitation of a bad barrel-organ, which had astonished Christiane in the village street.
