5/20/2023 0 Comments Who Knows? by Guy de Maupassant![]() ![]() He was known to be a fine swordsman and a still finer shot with the pistol. He lived a happy, care-free life, in the most complete well-being of body and mind. He had been suspected of several love-affairs of a sort calculated to create a good opinion of a youngster. He was in demand in drawing-rooms, sought after for valses, and in men he inspired that smiling hostility which is reserved for vital and attractive rivals. He had a good figure and a good carriage, a sufficient flow of words to pass for wit, a certain natural grace, an air of nobility and pride, a gallant moustache and an eloquent eye, attributes which women like. ![]() His name was Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles.Īn orphan, and possessed of an adequate income, he cut a dash, as the saying is. ![]() EnglishClub : Learn English : Reading : Stories : A Coward A Coward ![]()
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