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The Necklace Full Text - The Necklace - Owl Eyes. The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks.
The Short-Story. 1907. XX. The Necklace. suffer as she came away. And she wept all day long, from chagrin, from regret, from despair, and from distress. But one evening her husband came in with a proud air, holding in his hand a large envelope. “There,” said he, “there’s something for you.”.
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And this life lasted for ten years. At the end of ten years, they had restored all. Mme Loisel seemed old now. She had become a strong, hard woman, the crude woman of the poor household. Her hair badly dressed, her skirts awry, her hands red, she spoke in a loud tone, and washed the floors with large pails of water.
The Necklace Guy de Maupassant SHE was one of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of employees. She had no dowry,1 no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, married by a man rich and distinguished; and she let them make a match for her with a little clerk in the Department of Education.
the necklace 227 TX_L09PE-u02s2-Neckla.indd 227 12/22/08 8:47:54 AM. He turned a bit pale, for he had set aside just that amount to buy a rifle so that, the following summer, he could join some friends who were getting up a group to shoot larks on the plain near Nanterre.7
Jul 20, 2010 · Internet Archive. Language. English. Translation of: La parure. A husband and wife enter into a life of hardship in order to repay the debt incurred in replacing a borrowed diamond necklace only to learn, ten years later, the irony of their situation. Access-restricted-item.
