Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

by Guy de Maupassant

indignant,

wanton,

dormant

edified,

capered

stertorous,

latter

sallied

bearded to the eyes,

obedient conquerors

contrast conquers are mercurial they are unpredictable. Not obedient people. Russians are placid.

beadle

As a matter of fact, things are not so very bad here just now, because the soldiers do no harm, and work just as if they were in their own homes. You see, sir, poor folk always help one another; it is the great ones of this world who make war."

Cornudet indignant at the friendly understanding established between conquerors and conquered, withdrew, preferring to shut himself up in the inn.

repeo...

They wished to see the officer, but that also was impossible, although he lodged in the inn.

Cornudet settled down beside the tall kitchen fireplace, before a blazing fire. He had a small table and a jug of beer placed beside him, and he smoked his pipe—a pipe which enjoyed among democrats a consideration almost equal to his own, as though it had served its country in serving

meerschaum,

physiognomy.

Du Guesclin,

solemnity

lolling

destitute

insolence

caprice

supposition.

assuaged

cur,

carrion

entreated

indignation.

indignant

ecarte,

vanquishing

obduracy.

expectorate.

gave forth rumbling sounds like those of an organ. His wheezing lungs struck every note of the asthmatic scale, from deep, hollow tones to a shrill, hoarse piping resembling that of a young cock trying to crow.

Luncheon

penance,

benumbed

exact

Dieppe,

soldiery."

unutterably

hussar,

apropos

A church bell summoned the faithful to a baptism. Boule de Suif had a child being brought up by peasants at Yvetot. She did not see him once a year, and never thought of him; but the idea of the child who was about to be baptized induced a sudden wave of tenderness for her own, and she insisted on being present at the ceremony.

company

company of animals. pact of wolves. throwing a lamb to slaughter.

The German, who knew human nature, had shown him the door.

Whereupon Madame Loiseau's vulgar temperament broke bounds.

prefecture!