'GOOD evening, my dear Gaston, ' Marguerite said to my companion, ' I'm so glad to see you. Why didn't you come to my box at the V...
THE room in which she had taken refuge was lit by a single candle on a table. Lying back on a large couch, her dress undone, she held one hand on her ...
AT this point in his story, Armand paused. 'Would you close the window?' he said to me, 'I'm beginning to feel cold. While you're ...
AT five in the morning, when daylight began to appear through the curtains, Marguerite said to me: 'Forgive me if I shoo you away now, but I must....
'YOU got here almost as quickly as we did, ' said Prudence.'Yes, ' I replied mechanically. 'Where's Marguerite?''In he...
WHEN I reached home, I began to weep like a child. There is not a man alive who has not been deceived at least once but does not know what it is to su...
JOSEPH and I had been getting everything ready for my departure for about an hour, when there was a violent ringing at my door.'Should I answer it...
I COULD have told you the start of the affair in a few lines (Armand said to me), but I wanted you to see for yourself the events and stages by which ...
THE next day, Marguerite sent me away punctually, saying that the Duke was expected early that morning, and promising to write the moment he left to l...
TO tell you of our new life in any detail would be no easy matter. It was made up of a series of frivolous diversions which, though delightful to us, ...