The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8)

n Office, he took the omnibus every morning, when he went to the

ok like spots, and whose complexion has a look like ivory. He always saw her coming at the corner of the same street, and she generally had to run to catch the

women whom one longs to clasp madly in one's arms immediately, without even knowing her. That girl answered to his inward de

ried to look in another direction, and in a few days they knew each other without having spoken. He gave up his place to her when the omnibus was full, and got outside, though he was very sorry to do it. By this time

ife, to him. He thought of her all the rest of the time, saw her continually during the long office hours, for he was haunted and bewitched by that floating and yet tenacious recollection

and he almost fancied that he preserved the imprint of it, on his skin, and he anxiously waited for this short omnibus ride, all the rest of the time, while Sundays seemed t