The Broken Cup

The Broken Cup is a witty tale about a beautiful, hopeful, and wide-eyed young lady and a young man with devilish intentions. Excerpt: «Marietta had scarcely been fourteen days in the house, between the olive trees and the African acacias, before every young man of Napoule knew that she lived there and that there lived not, in all Provence, a more charming girl than the one in that house. Went she through the village, sweeping lightly along like a dressed-up angel, her frock, with its pale-green bodice, and orange leaves and rosebuds upon the bosom of it, fluttering in the breeze…»