Old Amable

Old Amable By Guy de Maupassant ...dear Countess? I am afraid of catching cold and getting neuralgia.' "Oh, yes," she answered. She sat down upon a haystack, mowed that very morning to give the players a clear field, and with her heart suddenly a little sad, looked on. Her daughter exasperated by her continual failures, was getting animated, excited, dashing impetuously from one end of the court to the other with cries of vexation or triumph. Her violent motions would often loosen locks of hair which fell upon her shoulders, which she would seize impatiently, and with the racket held between her knees, fasten them up again, sticking hairpins here and there in the soft mass. And Bertin, from afar, would shout to the Countess: "Hein! isn't she pretty now, and fresh as day?" Yes, she was young, she might run, get warm, red, loosen her hair, defy or dare everything, for everything made her only more beautiful. Then, when they resumed their vigorous play, the Countess more and more melancholy, felt that Olivier preferred that game of tennis, that childish excitement, that enjoyment of little kittens jumping after paper balls, to the sweetness of sitting by her side that warm morning, and her loving pressure against him. When the bell, at a distance, sounded the first signal for breakfast, it seemed to her that she was set free, that a weight was taken from her heart. But as she returned, leaning on his arm, he said to her: "I have been amusing myself like a little boy. It is a capital thing to be, or to feel, young. Yes, indeed! There is nothing like it. When we do not care to run any more we are done for." After breakfast, the Countess, who for the first time on the day before had omitted her visit to the cemetery, proposed that they should go... We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. Old Amable, Old Amable book, Old Amable pdf, Old Amable Maupassant