Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

by Guy de Maupassant

steadfastly

dainties

rendering their owner independent of wayside inns.

odor

forethought

thereupon

repast.

unhesitatingly,

his neighbor's offer, and, in combination with the nuns, a sort of table was formed by opening out the newspaper over the four pairs of knees.

masticating

overstrained

gallantry,

nigh

Tantalus.

other. Come, come, ladies, don't

they set to work with a will.

indigestible

condescension

baser

s...

gend...

mo...

benevolent

monopoly

just as priests have a monopoly of religion.

dog...

reviled

indignant,

imbued

The driver lighted his lanterns. They cast a bright gleam on a cloud of vapor which hovered over the sweating flanks of the horses, and on the roadside snow, which seemed to unroll as they went along in the changing light of the lamps.

docility

prudence

russet

complaisant

minutely,

brusquely:

Follenvie

patronymic.

platitudes

crimson

indignation.

tureen,

The cider was good; the Loiseaus and the nuns drank it from motives of economy. The others ordered wine; Cornudet demanded beer. He had his own fashion of uncorking the bottle and making the beer foam, gazing at it as he inclined his glass and then raised it to a position between the lamp and his eye that he might judge of its color. When he drank, his great beard, which matched the color of his favorite beverage, seemed to tremble with affection; his eyes positively squinted in the endeavor not to lose sight of the beloved glass, and he looked for all the world as if he were fulfilling the only function for which he was born.

aff...

ale and revolution—and assuredly he could not taste the one without d...

The man, wheezing like a broken-dow...

execrating

Poor people have to feed and keep them, only in order that they may learn how to kill! True, I

Although an ardent admirer of great generals, the peasant woman's sturdy common sense made him reflect on the wealth which might accrue to a country by the employment of so many idle hands now maintained at a great expense, of so much unproductive force, if they were employed in those great industrial enterprises which it will take centuries to complete.

But Loiseau, who had been making his observations on the sly, sent his wife to bed, and amused himself by placing first his ear, and then his eye, to the bedroom keyhole, in order to discover what he called "the mysteries of the corridor."