By moonlight in the garden!

“By moonlight in the garden, she recited all the passionate rhymes she knew by heart, and, sighing, sang to him many melancholy adagios; but she found herself as calm after this as  before, and Charles seemed no more amorous and no more moved.” MADAME BOVARY I was reading Madame Bovary in mid-2019. And from theContinue reading “By moonlight in the garden!”

This Maupassant play reminded me Yeats today!

I read this piece in the morning, It was a play, It was all saccharine!Maupassant wrote romantic stuff, Ah! There is just one act! Scene- I, Mme. de Sallus is in her drawing room by the fireplace, enters Jacques de RANDOL, stealthily, making sure that no one sees him, and kisses Mme. de Sallus onContinue reading “This Maupassant play reminded me Yeats today!”