A. E. Henderson & Guy de Maupassant 
Original Short Stories — Volume 06 

pub One.info present you this new edition. The household lived frugally on the meager income derived from the husband’s insignificant appointments. Two children had been born of the marriage, and the earlier condition of the strictest economy had become one of quiet, concealed, shamefaced misery, the poverty of a noble family- which in spite of misfortune never forgets its rank.