Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

"Is this irony not enough to unbalance the mind of this poor wretch, who has neither father nor mother? He is an ardent republican. What am I saying? He even belongs to the same political party, the members of which, formerly shot or exiled by the government, it now welcomes with open arms this party to which arson is a principle and murder an ordinary occurrence. "These gloomy doctrines, now applauded in public meetings, have ruined this man.