Marroca

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Marroca is a novella by Guy de Maupassant . The preprint appeared under the pseudonym Maufrigneuse on March 2, 1882 in Le Gil Blas . The text of the book edition is a little longer.

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The novella is written as a letter to a friend. The writer describes travel impressions from Morocco . Then he reports how he surprised a young Moroccan woman while bathing in the sea. A passionate affair broke out between the two. When she asked him to go to her house, he reluctantly did so. During the rendezvous, the Moroccan woman's husband suddenly came home. The lover hid under the bed and luckily remained undetected. After the man left the house, the lover reproached the woman for being easily spotted. Then she pointed to an ax lying next to the bed and explained that in this case she would have killed her husband.

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