Show r LITERARY GEMS GEM 6 necklace necklaces 9 Is perfect tale by ELIZABETH C JAMES S C HE had been born bom a poor girl and she had married a poor man yet madam mathilde loisel heroine of guy de Maupas the necklace did not give up life so easily she dreamed of lovely things within her surged tho power to charm to sway emotions one day her husband returned from work with an envelope which he eagerly handed her reading the contents she began to cry he was astonished 1 I thought you would like to go it is to be a grand ball and everyone wanted to go I 1 had much trouble to get it for you and what am I 1 to wear what would a new dress cost she calculated rapidly to see how much she thought he would give her and then said four hundred francs will do elizabeth he save gave up P his james savings f for or her gown and she ordered the dress the week of the ball arrived but still madam loisel was not happy her husband inquired the reason and she deplored her lack of jewels he suggested her wealthy friend madam forestier Fo a friend of convent days at the home of her friend madam loisel surveyed all the jewel cases and held each ornament up to see the effect finally she inquired if she might use the diamond necklace her friend assented and gave her the precious string of jewels ball Is success at the ball madam was a triumph all the men asked for introductions and all the women inquired who she was her eyes shone with this fulfillment of her daydreaming day dreaming it was early morning when they started tor for home standing before her mirror tor for a last glimpse of herself on this glorious occasion madame loisel uttered a shriek the necklace was gone her husband rushed to her side when had she last noticed it where could it be he started out to search for it hardly knowing where to look at seven in the morning he returned without it they searched the city of paris the cab drivers the streets the police they put an advertisement in the papers at the end of the week they had not found it so they made the rounds of the jewelers shops A necklace almost identically like the lost one cost francs but they could get it for cash by using all their savings and by borrowing at ruinous rates they bought the new rope of diamonds when madam returned it she did not wait for her friend to open the box for tear fear she might see the difference then began the paying MOST PERFECT MASTER MASTEB among the writers whose lives were cut short by premature death and whose work la Is condensed within a few working years Is the french short story writer henri rene bene albert guy de Mau passant lie he was born in 1850 and died at the age of forty three athletics was first love in his youth he belonged to a club where he be knew daudet turge nev zola and flaubert who read some of his sketches and then remembered him as a chaase chaa Sg 4 young athlete this was uan who was later called the rno most st perfect master of the short story within wi t h in his h i s wn own 0 lifetime li f atit n e some s 0 m e of bis h i s stories st 0 r le s we were r e forbidden f or bi d d en from public display but this reacted as advertisement and increased the sale of everything that he wrote ithac back of all this borrowed money they moved into a garrett dismissed the maid and lived as laboring people madam lost her physical beauty from haggling over prices she became loud and coarse at the end of ten years they paid off the debt and could again face the world the revelation one day madam was wal in the park to get a breath of spring just ahead she saw her old friend madam forestier but the latter did not noi recognize madam loisel and exclaimed upon learning who she was her changed appearance called for an explanation it could not do any harm now so the story of the necklace was told at the end of it madam forestier cried out in pain she took the hands of madam loisel and tearfully said oh my poor mathilde why my necklace was paste it was worth at most francs this story is often said to have the most perfect plot of all short stories the technique of maupas sant great french artist is to emphasize the plot above the people with him it is a question always of what happened 0 bell syndicate service |