CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION vii
ONLY A WALTZ 3
THE DANCING-MASTER 37
THE CIRCUS CHARGER 49
BLACKY 69
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN PARIS 83
THE STORY OF A BALL-DRESS 113
THE INSURGENT 137
THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR 147
IN THE EXPRESS 161




INTRODUCTION




THE SHORT STORIES OF M. LUDOVIC HALÉVY


To most American readers of fiction I fancy that M. Ludovic Halévy is
known chiefly, if not solely, as the author of that most charming of
modern French novels, _The Abbé Constantin_. Some of these readers may
have disliked this or that novel of M. Zola's because of its bad moral,