A Mummer's Tale by Anatole France, Fiction, Classics, Lit...
France, Anatole / J. Lewis May and Bernard Miall No need to pity her, ' he said. 'She will have all that she can wish, she will succeed, she will be wealthy. She is a selfish little jade, and a woman who is selfish can get anything she likes. But for people with hearts there's nothing left but to hang a stone round one's neck and throw oneself into the river. But, I too, I shall go far. I, too, shall climb high. I, too, will be a selfish hound.' . . . "Conscious of physical distress on going...