This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... "Who would not prefer me to all the corn-poppies on earth V added the other. Thus the blonde and the brunette would converse together every evening. Then they would embrace each other, and sleep until the first cooings of their turtles awoke them. III. A COUNTRY JUDGE'S IDEA. Finding himself worn out, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... "Who would not prefer me to all the corn-poppies on earth V added the other. Thus the blonde and the brunette would converse together every evening. Then they would embrace each other, and sleep until the first cooings of their turtles awoke them. III. A COUNTRY JUDGE'S IDEA. Finding himself worn out, wrinkled and withered, the country judge began to think of marrying; and inasmuch as he was humpbacked, lame, toothless, bald, and asthmatic, he concluded that he ought to have the prettiest girl in the village. And thus it was that he cast his eyes on Bleuette. IV. A SQUIRE'S NOTION. The squire of the village lived in an old, cracked tower, which admitted rain, wind, hail, snow, and was open, indeed, to all kinds of weather. His only domestic was a peasant, who attended to the hogs by day, and at evening waited on his master. But this did not hinder him from talking of his chateau, and of his servants. He possessed, nevertheless, the right of jurisdiction, both high and low, over a territory which no longer belonged to him, and through the space of a league around, could hang any one he pleased. One fine day, when his gout, his catarrh, and his rheumatism left him a little ease, it occurred to him, that hitherto he had been living a selfish life;--and, noble gentleman as he was, he formed the generous resolution to share, henceforth, with some human being, the advantages of his position; he determined, in fact, to insure the happiness of some woman. His choice rested on Coquelicot. V. THE TWO DELICATE-COLORED TUNICS. In the mean time, the two shepherdesses, unsuspicious of the honors which were about to descend upon them, were quietly enjoying the love of their shepherds. Lucas sung his woes in a silken tunic of palest green, while Blaise, ...
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