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Page 286 - And the children suspect nothing and reach the age of life -with a bandage over their eyes and reason — without suspecting what the under side of existence means — without knowing that people do not think as they speak, do not talk as they act — without knowing that one must live in a state of continual -warfare or at best of armed peace, with everybody — without ever imagining that one is always sure to be tricked if one is simple, deceived if one is sincere, maltreated if one is kind and...
Page 95 - ... Oh yes, nearly everybody.' '"The family of Sainte-Allaize?' " ' Yes, very well; they were friends of my father.' "' What are you called ?' " I told her my name. She regarded me fixedly, then said, in that low voice which is roused by memories : '"Yes, yes; I remember well. And the Brisemares, what has become of them ?' "
Page 286 - ... think as they speak, do not talk as they act, — without knowing that one must live in a^ state of continual warfare, or, at best, of armed peace, with everybody, — without ever imagining that one is always sure to be tricked if one is simple, deceived if one is sincere, maltreated if one is kind and good. Some go on to the moment of their death in this blindness of loyalty, honour and probity, — beings so thoroughly upright that nothing can open their eyes.
Page 90 - ... Oh! Look down there; what is it? " On the sea, at the bottom of the horizon, loomed up a mass, gray, enormous, and confused. The women had risen from their seats, and without understanding, looked at this surprising thing which they had never seen before. Some one said: " It is Corsica! You see it so two or three times a year, in certain exceptional conditions of the atmosphere, when the air is perfectly clear, and it is not concealed by those mists of sea-fog which always veil the distances.
Page 91 - ... sculptured stone, never the least reminder that the ancestors of these people had any taste, whether rude or refined, for gracious and beautiful things. It is this which strikes you the most in their superb and hard country : their hereditary indifference to that search for seductive forms which is called Art. " Italy, where every palace, full of masterpieces, is a masterpiece itself; Italy, where marble, wood, bronze, iron, metals, and precious stones attest man's genius, where the smallest...
Page 23 - They went along, the man taking the child by the hand; and the former smiled again, for he was not sorry to have this chance of seeing La Blanchette, who had the reputation of being one of the handsomest girls in the country; and perhaps, he thought to himself They stopped before a little house, very white, very clean. "Here it is," said the child; and he called out, "Mamma!
Page 113 - And now a typical beginning of one of Maupassant's sketches : " Nobody was surprised by the marriage of Maitre Simon Lebrument and Mademoiselle Jeanne Cordier. Maitre Lebrument had just purchased the notary practice of Maitre Papillon ; of course, a good deal of money had to be paid for it ; and Mademoiselle Jeanne had 300,000 francs ready money, in bank notes and money at call.
Page 115 - I swear to you it is not prudent to carry so much money in your pocketbook." The young notary smiled: "Don't worry yourself at all, beau-papa; — I'm used to these things. You must understand that in this profession of mine it sometimes happens that I have nearly a million on my person. As it is, we can escape going through a heap of formalities and delays. Don't worry yourself about us.
Page 121 - And completely overcome by emotion, she hid her face against her cousin's vest, sobbing. As people were stopping to look at them, he pushed her very gently inside the house, and guided her up the stairs, with his arm about her waist. And, as his astonished housekeeper opened the door, he said: "Sophie, go to the restaurant at once, and order breakfast for two. I shall not go to the office to-day.
Page xi - Maupassant translations) recalls the plaint of one associate: "In fact someone who gave him the material for one of his later Japanese tales complained that Hearn introduced his own version in such a manner that it differed from the tale as originally told him.