The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3

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Guy de Maupassant. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3

THE VIATICUM

THE RELICS

THE THIEF

A RUPTURE

A USEFUL HOUSE

THE ACCENT

GHOSTS

CRASH

AN HONEST IDEAL

STABLE PERFUME

THE ILL-OMENED GROOM

AN EXOTIC PRINCE

VIRTUE IN THE BALLET

IN HIS SWEETHEART'S LIVERY

DELILA

A MESALLIANCE

BERTHA

ABANDONED

A NIGHT IN WHITECHAPEL

COUNTESS SATAN

I

II

III

KIND GIRLS

PROFITABLE BUSINESS

VIOLATED

JEROBOAM

THE LOG

MARGOT'S TAPERS

I

II

III

CAUGHT IN THE VERY ACT

THE CONFESSION

WAS IT A DREAM?

THE LAST STEP

THE WILL

A COUNTRY EXCURSION

THE LANCER'S WIFE

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

THE COLONEL'S IDEAS

ONE EVENING

THE HERMAPHRODITE

MARROCA

AN ARTIFICE

THE ASSIGNATION

AN ADVENTURE

THE DOUBLE PINS

UNDER THE YOKE

THE READ ONE AND THE OTHER

THE UPSTART

THE CARTER'S WENCH

THE MARQUIS

THE BED

AN ADVENTURE IN PARIS

MADAME BAPTISTE

HAPPINESS

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They had given him a grand public funeral, like they do victorious soldiers who have added some dazzling pages to the glorious annals of their country, who have restored courage to desponding heads and cast over other nations the proud shadow of their country's flag, like a yoke under which those went who were no longer to have a country, or liberty.

During a whole bright and calm night, when falling stars made people think of unknown metamorphoses and the transmigration of souls, who knows whether tall cavalry soldiers in their cuirasses and sitting as motionless as statues on their horses, had watched by the dead man's coffin, which was resting, covered with wreaths, under the porch of the heroes, every stone of which is engraved with the name of a brave man, and of a battle.

.....

"Oh! Good Lord!" and the ghost began to run away as fast as it could. A shrill whistle was heard, and then another, and the police director laid his hand on the shoulder of the exorcisor, accompanied with the remark:

"You are in custody."

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