The Substitute part 7
On holidays they together took long walks in the environs of Paris, and dined under an arbor in one of those small country inns...
The Substitute part 6
Whoever is not worked to death in the hell of the galleys comes out agile and robust, and I learned there to climb ropes...
The Substitute part 5
Nothing was changed: neither the bright light shining in at the great windows, nor the crucifix over the desk, nor the rows of benches...
The Substitute part 4
Taken, in a cast of the net, with some young loafers who robbed drunkards sleeping on the streets, he denied very earnestly haying taken...
The Substitute part 3
They assumed, however, an air of great dignity on those days when a newcomer was brought in among them, at first entertaining him gravely...
The Substitute part 2
He said this openly, cynically, like a man. He was a little ragged street-arab, as tall as a boot, his forehead hidden under a...
The Substitute part 1
Frangois Coppee (1842—1908)
Coppee, the poet of the poor and humble, lived a long and uneventful life. His volumes of verse are characterized by qualities...
Adios Cordera Part 5
A few days later the separation took place; the butcher came and brought the money agreed upon. He was asked by Anton to take...
Adios Cordera Part 4
Anton de Chinta appreciated this in an indefinite way, and conse-quently said nothing to the children of the necessity for selling the cow.
One Saturday...
Adios Cordera Part 3
But the railway and telegraph furnished incidents of only short duration, and these were soon swallowed up in the sea of solitude which surrounded...
