Excerpt from The Life Work of Henri Rene Guy De Maupassant

Old Roland had sat motionless for a quarter of an hour, gazing intently into the water, every now and then pulling gently on his line, which trailed idly in the sea.

"Zut!" he at last suddenly exclaimed. Madame Roland, who had been dozing in the stern of the boat beside Madame Rosemilly, - the latter the guest of the fishing party, - woke up, and turning to her husband, said: "What's the matter, Gerome?"

"Not a single bite," replied the old man in a rage. "I have caught nothing since midday. Men should always go fishing by themselves. Women are never ready to start till it is too late."

His two sons, Pierre and Jean, one on the port, the other on the starboard side, each with a fishing line twisted round his forefinger, began to laugh.

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