Original Short Stories – Volume 07. Guy de Maupassant

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      “‘Supposing we bathe?’

      “‘Yes,’ they said, ‘but costumes.’

      “‘Bah! we are in the wilderness.’

      “And we did bathe!

      “If I were a poet, how I would describe this unforgettable vision of those lissome young forms in the transparency of the water! The high, sloping sides shut in the lake, motionless, gleaming and round, as a silver coin; the sun pours into it a flood of warm light; and along the rocks the fair forms move in the almost invisible water in which the swimmers seemed suspended. On the sand at the bottom of the lake one could see their shadows as they moved along.