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Overview
The narrator, 22-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart, changes his last name to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity, "resolutely refused to employ them". His companion Talbot identifies the woman as Madame Eugenie Lalande, a wealthy widow, and promises to introduce the two. He courts her and proposes marriage; she makes him promise that, on their wedding night, he will wear his spectacles.
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- ISBN-13: 9781548789725
- ISBN-10: 1548789720
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: July 2017
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.06 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.11 pounds
- Page Count: 28
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