Chapter

 1 Int |      career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted
 2 Int |      touching remembrances of the years preceding his literary début.
 3 Int |          of his prehistoric soul. Years went by in an ecstasy of
 4 Int |           a position. For several years he was a clerk in the Ministry
 5 Int |           candid heart. For seven years Flaubert slashed, pulverized,
 6 Int |        manner.”~During these long years of his novitiate Maupassant
 7 I   |          to him pure at seventeen years of age, so that he might
 8 I   |          enormous in the last few years and also had an affection
 9 II  |          physician, consulted ten years before, had spoken of hypertrophy
10 II  |           manner for two or three years, so that he might save enough
11 V   |         voice hoarse after twenty years of command and worn from
12 V   |       After being away for twenty years, I should recognize it five
13 V   |         had known them for twenty years.~But Jeanne was worried.
14 VIII|         twenty-one to twenty-five years old, clad in a brand-new
15 IX  |          six months, had aged ten years. Her heavy cheeks had grown
16 IX  |         been difficult for twenty years, now quite hushed. The nurse
17 X   |       have been here for eighteen years. Oh, the place does not
18 XI  |         mother and the baron.~Two years passed quietly, and at the
19 XI  |       series of quiet, monotonous years. Always around the little
20 XI  | revelations.~When Paul was twelve years old a great difficulty arose
21 XI  |          going to undertake a ten years’ voyage. One October morning,
22 XI  |           school; he was kept two years in the fourth form. The
23 XI  |          alone; the boy is twenty years old.”~One morning, however,
24 XI  |       former days? Was it of late years? She could not tell, and
25 XI  |        each other for twenty-five years.”~They were silent, thinking
26 XII |       château. Otherwise, in four years you will not have a rap
27 XIII|          neighbor for twenty-five years, the sea with its salt air,
28 XIII|       have not seen you for seven years! You were my life, my dream,
29 XIII|         in Paris for twenty-eight years.~He gave them lots of advice
30 XIII|           Paris and Havre for six years, and were revolutionizing
31 XIV |          she remembered the sweet years of Paul’s childhood, when