Original Short Stories – Volume 11

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Guy de Maupassant. Original Short Stories – Volume 11

THE UMBRELLA

BELHOMME’S BEAST

DISCOVERY

THE ACCURSED BREAD

THE DOWRY

THE DIARY OF A MADMAN

THE MASK

THE PENGUINS’ ROCK

A FAMILY

SUICIDES

AN ARTIFICE

DREAMS

SIMON’S PAPA

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The coach for Havre was ready to leave Criquetot, and all the passengers were waiting for their names to be called out, in the courtyard of the Commercial Hotel kept by Monsieur Malandain, Jr.

It was a yellow wagon, mounted on wheels which had once been yellow, but were now almost gray through the accumulation of mud. The front wheels were very small, the back ones, high and fragile, carried the large body of the vehicle, which was swollen like the belly of an animal. Three white horses, with enormous heads and great round knees, were the first things one noticed. They were harnessed ready to draw this coach, which had something of the appearance of a monster in its massive structure. The horses seemed already asleep in front of the strange vehicle.

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“I should say not!”

The fear of the doctor seemed to cure Belhomme. He straightened up without, however, dropping his handkerchief.

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