A WEDDING GIFT by GUY de MAUPASSANT

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	The Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of
0:23.0	one classic short stories and tales.
0:26.0	This one from Ghee Demobizat.
0:28.0	The story? A young man falls madly in love with a girl he meets at the beach, and although he has a bad reputation,
0:35.6	her parents finally agreed to a marriage.
0:38.2	But on their wedding night, his past finally catches up with them.
0:50.0	And now a wedding gift by Gee de M Obazant. For a long time Jacques Bordelaire had sworn that he would never marry, but he suddenly
0:59.2	changed his mind.
1:01.2	It happened suddenly one summer at the seashore.
1:05.0	One morning as he lay stretched out on the sand, watching the women coming out of the water,
1:11.0	a little foot had struck him by its neatness and daintiness. He raised his eyes and was delighted with the whole person, although in fact he could see nothing but the ankles and the head emerging from a flannel bathrobe carefully held closed.
1:25.6	He was supposed to be sensual and known to be a fast liver.
1:30.6	It was therefore by the mere grace of the form that he was at first captured.
1:36.2	Then he was held by the charm of the young girl's sweet mind, so simple and good, as fresh as
1:41.8	her cheeks and lips.
1:45.1	He was presented to the family and pleased them.
1:48.2	He immediately fell madly in love.
1:51.0	When he saw Bertha Lennis in the distance on the long yellow stretch of sand, he would tingle to the roots of his hair.
1:58.0	When he was near her, he would become silent, unable to speak, or even to think, with a kind of throbbing at his
2:05.5	heart and a buzzing in his ears and a bewilderment in his mind.
2:11.0	Was that love? He did not know or understand, but he had fully decided to have this child for his wife.
2:19.0	Her parents hesitated for a long time, restrained by the young man's bad reputation.
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