Short stories of the tragedy and comedy of life with a critical preface . the perfume. One found complete reposethere. It was truly a comfortable dwelling, invitingto rest. When we had re-entered the drawing-room, Ibroached, with reserve and delicacy, the question ofprice. Madame Samoris asked, lowering her eyes,fifty thousand francs. Then she added: If you wish to see it again, sir, I scarcely evergo out before three oclock, and you will find mehere any day. In the street, the stranger asked me some detailsabout the Baroness, whom he found charming. ButI did not undertake to say much for her,
Short stories of the tragedy and comedy of life with a critical preface . the perfume. One found complete reposethere. It was truly a comfortable dwelling, invitingto rest. When we had re-entered the drawing-room, Ibroached, with reserve and delicacy, the question ofprice. Madame Samoris asked, lowering her eyes,fifty thousand francs. Then she added: If you wish to see it again, sir, I scarcely evergo out before three oclock, and you will find mehere any day. In the street, the stranger asked me some detailsabout the Baroness, whom he found charming. ButI did not undertake to say much for her, nor of her. BRIC-A-BRAC 2^ ** Three months more passed. One morning, not more than five days ago, shecame to my house at the breakfast hour and, placinga pocket-book in my hand, said: My dear, you arean angel. Here are fifty thousand francs; / havebought your Christ of the Renaissance, and I paytwenty thousand francs more than the price agreedupon, on the condition that you will always ^-alwayssend me clients — because the piece is still for sale.* THE ARTISTS WIFE. CURVED like a crescent moon, thelittle town of Etretat, with itswhite cliffs and its blue sea,is reposing under the sun of agrand July day. At the two pointsof the crescent are the two gates,the little one at the right, and thelarge one at the left, as if it weregradually advancing to the water—onone side a dwarfed foot, on the other,a leg of giant proportions; and the spire,nearly as high as the cliff, large at the^(J base and fine at the summit, points its slim^^ head toward the heavens. Along the beach, upon the float, a crowd is seatedwatching the bathers. Upon the terrace of the Casino,another crowd, seated or walking, parades under thefull light of day, a garden of pretty costumes, shadedby red and blue umbrellas embroidered in greatflowers of silk. At the end of the promenade, onthe terrace, there are other people, calm, quiet, walk-ing slowly along up and down, as far as possiblefrom the elegant multitu
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