Marguerite - Classic Reprint Author:Anatole France MARGUERITE — carriage - hoods, "vomen's faces gleamed — clear and radiant and I felt a thrill of pleasure — as I vatched them flash by like hopes — vanishingandreappearingin endless succession. — Every voman as she passed by left me — with an impression of light and perfume. — I think a man, if he is wise, vill not ask much — more than that of a beautif... more »ul woman. A
gleam and a perfume! Many a love-affair
leaves even less behind it. Moreover, that
day, if Fortune herself had run with her
vheel a-spinning before my verynose along
the pavement of the Pont de la Concorde,
I should not have so much as stretched
forth an arm to pluck her by her golden
hair. I lacked nothing that day; all "vas
mine. It was five o'clock and I was free till« less