Apparition maupassant analysis
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The Apparition
by Guy de Maupassant
The subject of sequestration of the person came up in speaking of a recent lawsuit, and each of us had a story to tell--a true story, he said.
We had been spending the evening together at an old family mansion in the Rue de Grenelle, just a party of intimate friends.
Apparition maupassant analysis
The old Marquis de la Tour-Samuel, who was eighty-two, rose,and, leaning his elbow on the mantelpiece, said in his somewhat shaky voice:
"I also know of something strange, so strange that it has haunted me all my life.
It is now fifty-six years since the incident occurred, and yet not a month passes that I do not see it again in a dream, so great is the impression of fear it has left on my mind. For ten minutes I experienced such horrible fright that ever since then a sort of constant terror has remained with me.
Sudden noises startle me violently, and objects imperfectly distinguished at night inspire me with a mad desire to flee from them. In short, I am afraid of the dark!