Mon Oncle Jules
(Guy de Maupassant)
My uncle Jules Joseph tells his history to his friend because a poor poor person reminded it to him. Joseph was from the Havre and his family was not rich. He had two sisters and his parents. Every Sunday, they were going to go for a walk at the port, and one day, his father spoke of his brother who was called Jules. The uncle Jules was the family's terror, the only hope to change the family's situation. He went to America and in his last letter he said that he would come back to the Havre once he would have made fortune. he said that he would come back to the Havre once he would have made fortune. This letter had helped a man to get married with the most beautiful sister. The family decided that after the marriage, she would make a journey in Jersey. During the journey, in the boat,it happened a strangely enough: a poor malelot, that sold some oysters, looked like Jules. The captain told the father that this man was called Jules and that he was from the Havre. The parents gave hundred coins to Joseph to go to pay the oysters that them..
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