Original Short Stories - Volume 02

Bok av Guy de Maupassant
pubOne.info present you this new edition. "e;Upon my word, "e; said Colonel Laporte, "e;although I am old and gouty, my legs as stiff as two pieces of wood, yet if a pretty woman were to tell me to go through the eye of a needle, I believe I should take a jump at it, like a clown through a hoop. I shall die like that; it is in the blood. I am an old beau, one of the old school, and the sight of a woman, a pretty woman, stirs me to the tips of my toes. There!