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Excerpt: ...which did not wish to get up. It was evidently the dog's favorite sport, with which he amused himself whenever he saw the cows lying down. Irritated, but not frightened, they gazed at him with their large, moist eyes, turning their heads to watch him. Annette, from her window, cried: "Fetch them, Julio, fetch them!" The excited spaniel, growing bolder, barked louder and ventured as far as their cruppers, feigning to be about to bite them. They began to grow uneasy, and the nervous twitching of their skin, to get rid of the flies, became more frequent and protracted. Suddenly the dog, carried along by the impetus of a rush that he could not check in time, bounced so close to one cow that, in order not to fall against her, he was obliged to jump over her. Startled by the bound, the heavy animal took fright, and first raising her head she finally raised herself slowly on her four legs, sniffing loudly. Seeing her erect, the other two immediately got up also, and Julio began to prance around them in a dance of triumph, while Annette praised him. "Bravo, Julio, bravo!" "Come," said the Countess, "come to breakfast, my child." But the young girl, shading her eyes with one hand, announced: "There comes a telegraph messenger!" Along the invisible path among the wheat and the oats a blue blouse appeared to be gliding along the top of the grain, and it came toward the castle with the firm step of a man. "Oh, heavens!" murmured the Countess; "I hope he does not bring bad news!" She was still shaken with that terror which remains with us a long time after the death of some loved one has been announced by a telegram. Now she could not remove the gummed band to open the little blue paper without feeling her fingers tremble and her soul agitated, believing that from those folds which it took so long to open would come a grief that would cause her tears to flow afresh. Annette, on the contrary, full of girlish curiosity, was delighted to meet with the unknown...

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• Pełny tytuł: Strong As Death
• Autor: Guy De Maupassant
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 140
• EAN: 9781443248778
• ISBN: 1443248770
• ID: 11066384
• Wydawca: General Books
• Waga: 204 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Data wydania: 15. March 2010

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