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''Le Monsieur De La Petite Dame''
''Le Monsieur De La Petite Dame''
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astonishing how agreeable she made herself to her victims when she had fairly entrapped them. Bertha hesitated a little before accepting her offer of a seat at her side, but once seated she found herself oddly amused. When Madame de Castro chose to rake the embers of her seventy years, many a lively coal discovered itself among the ashes.
Seeing the two women together, Edmondstone shuddered in fastidious protest.
"How could you laugh at that detestable old woman?" he exclaimed on encountering Bertha later in the evening. "I wonder that M. Villefort would permit her to talk to you. She is a wicked, cynical creature, who has the hardihood to laugh at her sins instead of repenting of them."
"Perhaps that is the reason she is so amusing," said Bertha.
Edmondstone answered her with gentle mournfulness.
"What!" he said. "Have you begun to say such things? You too, Bertha"--
The laugh with which she stopped him was both light and hard.
"Where is M. Villefort?" she as
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A quick read about ugly but too good husband, a pretty wife who is in misery upon her choice a handsome cousin who was a fool at first then a desperate lover in the end. A happy ending with the husband & wife going together in the end. It was not so engaging but when once began with it so one must should complete it for the sake of knowing the story. The writing style is brilliant as expected.
Some quotes from the story that i admired
"It is all over. Let it rest. The pain of to-day and tomorrow is enough for us. We have borne yesterday; why should we want it back again?"
What happiness is so keen as one's briefest pain?
Some quotes from the story that i admired
"It is all over. Let it rest. The pain of to-day and tomorrow is enough for us. We have borne yesterday; why should we want it back again?"
What happiness is so keen as one's briefest pain?
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One of the hardest things about reading 19th-century literature is getting into the moral mindset of the period. This story about a lovely young woman; her ugly, older husband; and her handsome, talented, male cousin could not be transferred into modern times. That makes the unhappy characters seem less sympathetic than they likely were to readers of its day.
11/28/2008
I find this story slow and somewhat confusing. Not enough explanation of why the characters did what they did and meaning of terms. Notenough meaning as why they felt what they did.
12/09/2007
