Original Short Stories — Volume 11
Guy de Maupassant Translator · English
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Original Short Stories — Volume 11
Guy de Maupassant Translator · English
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THE UMBRELLA Mme. Oreille was a very economical woman; she knew the value of a centime, and possessed a whole storehouse of strict principles with regard to the multiplication of money, so that her cook found the greatest difficulty in making what the servants call their market-penny, and her husband was hardly allowed any pocket money at all. They were, however, very comfortably off, and had no children; but it really pained Mme. Oreille to
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