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THE OLD MAID
THE AWAKENING
IN THE SPRING
THE JENNET
RUST
THE SUBSTITUTE
THE RELIC
THE MAN WITH THE BLUE EYES
ALLOUMA
A FAMILY AFFAIR
THE ODALISQUE OF SENICHOU
A GOOD MATCH
A FASHIONABLE WOMAN
THE CARNIVAL OF LOVE
A DEER PARK IN THE PROVINCES
THE WHITE LADY
CAUGHT
CHRISTMAS EVE
WORDS OF LOVE
A DIVORCE CASE
WHO KNOWS?
SIMON'S PAPA
PAUL'S MISTRESS
THE RABBIT
THE TWENTY-FIVE FRANCS OF THE MOTHER-SUPERIOR
THE VENUS OF BRANIZA
LA MORILLONNE
WAITER, A "BOCK"
REGRET
THE PORT
THE HERMIT
THE ORDERLY
DUCHOUX
OLD AMABLE
MAGNETISM
Count Eustache d'Etchegorry's solitary country house had the appearanceof a poor man's home, where people do not have enough to eat every day inthe week, where the bottles are more frequently filled at the pump thanin the cellar, and where they wait until it is dark before lighting thecandles.
It was an old and sordid building; the walls were crumbling to pieces,the grated, iron gates were eaten away by rust, the holes in the brokenwindows had been mended with old newspapers, and the ancestral portraitswhich hung against the walls, showed that it was no tiller of the soil,nor miserable laborer whose strength had gradually worn out and bent hisback, who lived there. Great, knotty elm trees sheltered it, as if theyhad been a tall, green screen, and a large garden, full of wildrose-trees and of straggling plants, as well as of sickly-lookingve