The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau

Author:Octave Mirbeau [Mirbeau, Octave]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781909232211
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

And for the rest of the day, in the linen-room, I have been amusing myself recalling all the ridiculous things that used to go on in that household … Madame’s increasing passion for notoriety, to the point where she was ready to sleep with the first lousy journalist who promised to write an article praising one of her husband’s books or to insert a paragraph about her clothes or her salon. And Charrigaud’s smug complacency, knowing all about these goings-on, yet doing nothing about them. He would simply say, with complete cynicism, that at least it was much cheaper than fixing things up through the office. He had lost all sense of decency, and described such behaviour as ‘salon politics’ or ‘social diplomacy’.

Anyhow, now I must write to Paris for his latest book … though its bound to be rotten …

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