Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories
The Jewels
Describe the changes that have come over Lantin.
How would people feel about him now?
Describe the changes that have come over Lantin.
How would people feel about him now?
Lantin is now proud and confident, he puts on airs of aristocracy, and he lives it up.
He seated himself beside a gentleman of aristocratic bearing; and, during the meal, informed the latter confidentially that he had just inherited a fortune of four hundred thousand francs.
For the first time in his life, he was not bored at the theatre, and spent the remainder of the night in a gay frolic.
The Jewelry