Original Short Stories – Volume 10

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Guy de Maupassant. Original Short Stories – Volume 10

THE CHRISTENING

THE FARMER’S WIFE

THE DEVIL

THE SNIPE

THE WILL

WALTER SCHNAFFS’ ADVENTURE

AT SEA

MINUET

THE SON

THAT PIG OF A MORIN

SAINT ANTHONY

LASTING LOVE

PIERROT

A NORMANDY JOKE

FATHER MATTHEW

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“Will you come and open the hunting season with me at my farm at Marinville? I shall be delighted if you will, my dear boy. In the first place, I am all alone. It is rather a difficult ground to get at, and the place I live in is so primitive that I can invite only my most intimate friends.”

I accepted his invitation, and on Saturday we set off on the train going to Normandy. We alighted at a station called Almivare, and Baron Rene, pointing to a carryall drawn by a timid horse and driven by a big countryman with white hair, said:

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“My father turned round and stared at him in astonishment.

“‘What’s that you say, eh?’

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