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"The Carter's Wench" is a short story by the renowned French writer Guy de Maupassant, featuring themes of love, desire, and social class. The narrative revolves around a rural man, a carter, who becomes infatuated with a beautiful peasant woman. Maupassant skillfully explores the complexities of human relationships and the struggles of rural life, weaving together elements of romance, longing, and fleeting moments of happiness. Through vivid characterizations and rich descriptions, the story captures the essence of passion and the often harsh realities of life in the countryside.

• Short story

								

hand to hand, inherited some property from an old farmer, whom she had
caught, as if she had been a thrush on a twig covered with bird-lime,
and with the money she had built this public-house on the new road which
was being built across the Capsir.

"A regular bad one, Monsieur," the coachman said in conclusion, "a vixen
such as one does not see now in the worst garrison towns, and who would
open the door to the whole fraternity, and not at all avaricious, but
thoroughly honest...."

I interrupted him in spite of myself, as if his words had pained me, and
I thought of those pale green eyes, those magic eyes, eyes to be dreamt
about, which were the color of grasshoppers, and I looked for them, and
saw them in the darkness; they danced before me like phosphorescent
lights, and I would have given then the whole contents of my purse to
that man if he would only have been silent and urged his horses on to
full speed, so that their mad gallop might carry me off quickly, quickly
and far, and continually further from that girl.
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