The bed, by Guy de Maupassant

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In a torrid afternoon of the last summer, the vast Hotel des Ventes seemed asleep, and the auctioneers adjudged in a dying voice. In a room at the back, on the first floor, a lot of old church silk was lying in a corner.
There were solemn chapels and graceful chasubles where embroidered...

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