Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

by Guy de Maupassant

A great sigh of relief went up from all breasts; every face was lighted up with joy.

indignation

The count, who even in his moments of relaxation preserved a dignified demeanor, hit on a much-appreciated comparison of the condition of things with the termination of a winter spent in the icy solitude of the North Pole and the joy of shipwrecked mariners who at last

perceive a southward track opening out before their eyes.

solicitations

effervescent

quadrille."

assemblage,

infamous

aplomb,

perfectly sickening!"

sedately

unclean contact.

virtue.

tier

indignant

abstracted

orisons;

capacious

He removed the shells, threw them into the straw beneath his feet, and began to devour the eggs, letting morsels of the bright yellow yolk fall in his mighty beard, where they looked like stars.

indignation.

cord that is overstrained,

Marseillaise.

obstinacy