The works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 5

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Guy de Maupassant. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 5

INTRODUCTION

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HAUTOT SENIOR. AND. HAUTOT JUNIOR

PART I

PART II

PART III

LITTLE LOUISE ROQUÉ

PART II

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

A PASSION

NO QUARTER

THE IMPOLITE SEX

WOMAN'S WILES

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Jeanne, having finished her packing, went to the window, but it had not stopped raining.

All night long the downpour had pattered against the roofs and the window-panes. The low, heavy clouds seemed as though they had burst, and were emptying themselves on the world, to reduce it to a pulp and melt it as though it were a sugar-loaf. A hot wind swept by in gusts; the murmur of the overflowing gutters filled the empty streets, and the houses, like sponges, absorbed the moisture which, penetrating to the interior, made the walls wet from cellar to attic.

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"M. le Vicomte de Lamare has proposed for you," he said.

Jeanne would have liked to hide her head under the bed-clothes.

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