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The next day she went to her friend and told of her distress. It was written in 1884 and is now in the public domain. Complete maupassant original short stories information about project gutenberg the legal small print part i as the weather was very fine, the people on the farm had hurried through part i part ii then a cloud of constant misery began for her. She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded.
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