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Excerpt from The Life Work of Henri René Guy De Maupassant: Embracing Romance, Comedy Verse; For the First Time Complete in English; With a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an Introduction by Robert Arnot; M.A
It was one of those sultry, Parisian evenings when not a breath of air is stirring; the sewers exhaled poisonous gases and the restaurants the disagreeable odors of cooking and of kindred smells. Porters in their shirt-sleeves, astride their chairs, smoked their pipes at the carriage gates, and pedestrians strolled leisurely along, hats in hand.
When Georges Duroy reached the boulevard he halted again, undecided as to which road to choose. Finally he turned toward the Madeleine and followed the tide of people.
The large, well-patronized cafés tempted Duroy, but were he to drink only two glasses of beer in an evening, farewell to the meager supper the following night! Yet he said to himself: I will take a glass at the Americain. By Jove, I am thirsty.
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