Excerpt from The Odd Number, Vol. 13: Thirteen Tales The turn of his mind has helped him to do this, an extraordinary perceptive appara tus of the personal, material, immediate sort. M. De Maupassant takes his stand on every thing that solicits the sentient creature who lives in his senses; gives the impression of the active, independent observer who 13 ashamed of none of his faculties, describes what he sees, renders, with a rare reproduc tion of tone, what he bears, and is more aux ious to see and to hear than to make sure, in advance, of propping up some particular theory of things. He has indeed a theory to the effect that they are pretty bad, but practically the air of truth in the given case is almost never sacrificed to it. His strong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.