The Life Work of Henri René Guy De Maupassant

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Excerpt from The Life Work of Henri René Guy De Maupassant: Embracing Romance, Comedy Verse, For the First Time Complete in English, With a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an Introduction by Robert Arnot, M.ATall, well-built, fair, with blue eyes, a curled mus tache, hair naturally wavy and parted in the middle, he recalled the hero of the popular romances.It was one of those sultry, Parisian e'venings when not a breath Of air is. Stirring, the sewers exhaled poisonous gases and the restaurants the disagreeable Odors Of cooking and Of kindred smells. Porters in their shirt-sleeves, astride their chairs, smoked their pipes at the carriage gates, and pedestrians strolled leisurely along, hats in hand.When Georges Duroy reached the boulevard he halted again, undecided as to which road to choose. Finally he turned toward the Madeleine and followed the tide of people.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.