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قراءة كتاب The Surprises of Life
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THE SURPRISES OF LIFE
BY GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
TRANSLATED BY
GRACE HALL
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1920
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Mokoubamba's Fetish | 3 |
| II. | A Descendant of Timon | 19 |
| III. | Malus Vicinus | 31 |
| IV. | Aunt Rosalie's Inheritance | 45 |
| V. | Gideon in His Grave | 61 |
| VI. | Simon, Son of Simon | 73 |
| VII. | At the Foot of the Cross | 87 |
| VIII. | Evil Beneficence | 101 |
| IX. | A Mad Thinker | 113 |
| X. | Better Than Stealing | 125 |
| XI. | The Gray Fox | 137 |
| XII. | The Adventure of My Curé | 149 |
| XIII. | Master Baptist, Judge | 161 |
| XIV. | The Bullfinch and the Maker of Wooden Shoes | 173 |
| XV. | About Nests | 185 |
| XVI. | A Domestic Drama | 197 |
| XVII. | Six Cents | 209 |
| XVIII. | Flower o' the Wheat | 221 |
| XIX. | Jean Piot's Feast | 233 |
| XX. | The Treasure of St. Bartholemew | 249 |
| XXI. | A Happy Union | 263 |
| XXII. | A Well-Assorted Couple | 275 |
| XXIII. | Lovers in Florence | 287 |
| XXIV. | A Hunting Accident | 301 |
| XXV. | Giambolo | 313 |
THE SURPRISES OF LIFE
I
MOKOUBAMBA'S FETISH
It may be that you knew Mokoubamba who became famous in Passy for his labours as a reseater of rush-bottomed chairs, weaver of mats, of baskets and hampers, mender of all things breakable, teller of tales, entertainer of the passerby, lover of all haunts where poor mortality resorts to eat and drink. He was an old Negro from the coast of Guinea, very black as to skin, wholly white as to hair, with great velvety black eyes and the jaws of a crocodile whence issued childlike laughter. He used to honour me with his visits on his way home at evening when he had not sold quite all his wares. With abundance of words and gestures, he would explain to me how fortunate I was to need precisely the article of which by an