NOTRE CŒUR
OR
A WOMAN'S PASTIME
A NOVEL
By
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
SAINT DUNSTAN SOCIETY
AKRON, OHIO
1903
CONTENTS
GUY DE MAUPASSANT - Critical Preface: Paul Bourget
INTRODUCTION - Robert Arnot, M. A.
NOTRE CŒUR
CHAPTER I.
THE INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II.
"WILL YOU WALK INTO MY PARLOR?"
CHAPTER III.
THE THORNS OF THE ROSE
CHAPTER IV.
THE BENEFIT OF CHANGE OF SCENE
CHAPTER V.
CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER VI.
QUESTIONINGS
CHAPTER VII.
DEPRESSION
CHAPTER VIII.
NEW HOPES
CHAPTER IX.
DISILLUSION
CHAPTER X.
FLIGHT
CHAPTER XI.
LONELINESS
CHAPTER XII.
CONSOLATION
CHAPTER XIII.
MARIOLLE COPIES MME. DE BURNE
ADDENDA
THE OLIVE GROVE
REVENGE
AN OLD MAID
COMPLICATION
FORGIVENESS
THE WHITE WOLF
ILLUSTRATIONS
HENRI RENE GUY DE MAUPASSANT
"THEY WERE ALONE ... SHE WAS WEEPING"
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
Of the French writers of romance of the latter part of the nineteenthcentury no one made a reputation as quickly as did Guy de Maupassant.Not one has preserved that reputation with more ease, not only duringlife, but in death. None so completely hides his personality inhis glory. In an epoch of the utmost publicity, in which the mostinsignificant deeds of a celebrated man are spied, recorded, andcommented on, the author of "Boule de Suif," of "Pierre et Jean," of"Notre Cœur," found a way of effacing his personality in his work.
Of De Maupassant we know that he was born in Normandy about 1850; thathe was the favorite pupil, if one may so express it, the literaryprotégé, of Gustave Flaubert; that he made his début late in 1880,with a novel inserted in a small collection, published by Emile Zolaand his young friends, under the title: "The Soirées of Medan"; thatsubsequently he did not fail to publish stories and romances every