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Merrick Leonard. To Tell You the Truth
To Tell You the Truth
Table of Contents
I
MADEMOISELLE MA MÈRE
II
ARIBAUD'S TWO WIVES
III. THAT VILLAIN HER FATHER
IV
THE STATUE
V
THE CELEBRITY AT HOME
VI
PICQ PLAYS THE HERO
VII
A FLAT TO SPARE
VIII
A PORTRAIT OF A COWARD
IX
THE BOOM
X
PILAR NARANJO
XI
THE GIRL WHO WAS TIRED OF LOVE
XII
IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1918
XIII
A POT OF PANSIES
XIV
FLOROMOND AND FRISONNETTE
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Leonard Merrick
Published by Good Press, 2021
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After that, he called her always "Mademoiselle ma mère"; and, divining something of the little wistful heart, mademoiselle did not reprove him.
At Ivry-St.-Hilaire a thing strange and bewildering happened. For the first time in her life a man sought her society; for the first time in her life she was happier for talking to a man. Two moments were prodigious to her—a moment after she had heard herself laughing merrily; a moment when she realised why she had just plucked out a grey hair.
