The Life Work of Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant, Embracing Romance, Comedy & Verse, for the First Time Complete in English Volume 13 - Couverture souple
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Bernard awoke me by throwing up sand at my window. I opened it, and on my face, on my chest, in my very soul, I felt the cold delicious breath of the night. The sky was a clear blue gray, and alive with the quivering fire of the stars. The sailor; standing at the foot of wall, said: Fine weather, sir. What wind? Off shore. Very well, Im coming. Half an hour later I was hurrying down to the shore. The horizon was pale with the first rays of dawn, and I saw in the distance behind the Baie des Anges the lights at Nice, and still further on the revolving lighthouse at Villefranche. In front of me Antibes was dimly visible through the lifting darkness, with its two towers rising above 13 G. de M.
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