ISBN: 9780217394451

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1898. Not … Altro …

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1898. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ROBERT HELMONT. The Hermitage, September 3. It was six weeks ago yesterday that I broke my leg. It was the very day of the declaration of war. While Monsieur de Gramont was arousing so much excitement and enthusiasm in the Senate, I, on my way home from fishing, stumbled against a stump hidden by the grass on the bank of the Seine, and was brought back to my Hermitage from the forest of S^nart in a wood-cutter''s cart. I have been out this morning for the first time after fifty days of fever, of suffering intensified by the news of the war. I have had nightmares relating to distant battles; and the ominous despatches from Forbach and Reichshoffen are even now confused in my mind with the pain of my wound, the heat of the plaster bandage, the helplessness under great excitement which is the most cruel of tortures. At last it is over! After gazing so long at nothing but the tree-tops and the great patches of blue sky across which only wings pass, I felt happy beyond words to put my foot to the floor and descend the stairs hesitatingly. But how weak I was! My head was in a whirl. My leg, after being motionless for so many days, had forgotten what equilibrium is, or movement. It seemed to me as if it were no longer a part of myself, as if I were no longer able to guide it. However, by taking short steps, with the extreme lack of confidence which increases one''s infirmity twofold, I succeeded in walking as far as the poultry-yard and pushing open its little barred gate, hidden under the tall grass. It was a real pleasure to me to go in there! In my absence, the wife of my neighbor the keeper has taken the best of care of all my little family, who looked at me with bright, astonished, friendly eyes. The rabbits came tumbling over one another to the side of the... Alphonse Daudet, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, The Novels And Romances Of Alphonse Daudet (volume 1); Handy Library Edition Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 254 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=14mm, Gew.=376gr, [GR: 21110 - TB/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen]… Altro …

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 254 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=14mm, Gew.=376gr, [GR: 21110 - TB/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen], [SW: - Literature - Classics / Criticism], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. LITTLE CHEBE'S STORY. THREE FAMILIES ON ONE LANDING. In Paris the common landing is like an additional room, an enlargement of their abodes, to poor families confined in their too small apartments. There it is that they go to get a breath of air in summer, there the women talk and the children play. When little Chebe made too much noise in the house, her mother would say to her: ." There, there! you bother me, go and play on the landing." And the child would go quickly enough. This landing, on the upper floor of an old house in which space had not been spared, formed a sort of large lobby, with a high ceiling, guarded on the staircase side by a wrought-iron rail, lighted by a large window which looked out upon roofs, courtyards and other windows, and, farther away, upon the garden of the Fromont factory, which was like a green oasis among the huge old walls. There was nothing very enlivening about it all, but the child liked it much better than her own home. Their rooms were so dismal, especially when it rained and Ferdinand did not go out. His brain always smoking with new ideas, which Uiifortunately never came to anything, Ferdinand Chebe was one of those slothful, project-devising bourgeois of whom there are so many in Paris. His wife, whom he had dazzled at first, had soon detected his utter insignificance, and had ended by enduring patiently and with unchanged demeanor his continual dreams of wealth and the disasters that immediately followed them. Of the dowry of eighty thousand francs which she had brought him and which he had squandered in his absurd schemes, there remained only a small annuity, which still gave them a position of some importance in the eyes of their neighbors, as did Madame Chebe's cashmere, which had been rescued from every shipw...<

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ISBN: 0217394450

ISBN: 0217394450