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FRENCH
THE SEARCH FOR LORNA
Translated by Francis Marc, a professional technical translator (from English to French) as a gift to our website. Thank you Francis!
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Short stories in English translated into other languages in parallel text format to help you learn them. Help us translate these stories into as many languages as possible, by volunteering a translation!

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AFRIKAANS
The Search for Lorna 
Daisy Macbeth
The Surprise
The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip

The Bookworm


ALBANIAN
The Search for Lorna 
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth

A Nice Little Trip
The Night Watch
The Oak

ARABIC
The Search for Lorna 
The Surprise
1
The Surprise 2
Daisy Macbeth

Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip

BENGALI
The Surprise

BOSNIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise

BRAZILIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise

BULGARIAN
The Search for Lorna

CREOLE
The Search for Lorna 
The Surprise

Daisy Macbeth

CZECH
The Search for Lorna 
The Surprise

Daisy Macbeth

DANISH
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
Night Watch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

The Oak

DUTCH
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
Nightwatch

FINNISH
The Search for Lorna 
The Surprise

Night Watch

FRENCH
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
The Night Watch
A Nice Little Trip
Imogen

GERMAN
The Search for Lorna
Daisy Macbeth
The Surprise
Night Watch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm


GREEK
The Search for Lorna
Daisy Macbeth
The Surprise
Night Watch mp3
A Nice Little Trip mp3
The Bookworm mp3

HEBREW
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise

Daisy Macbeth

Night Watch


HINDI
The Search For Lorna

HUNGARIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth

Night Watch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

INDONESIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth

ITALIAN
The Search For Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
Night Watch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm
The Oak
Imogen
The Mystery of
Green Lodge


JAPANESE
The Search For Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth

KOREAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
Night Watch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

The Oak
Imogen

POLISH
The search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
Night Watch

The Oak
The Bookworm
A Nice Little Trip
The Mystery of
Green Lodge

The Wedding
The River Mist

PORTUGUESE
The search for Lorna
The Surprise

ROMANIAN
The Surprise

RUSSIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise

SPANISH
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth

Night Watch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

The Oak
Imogen
The Mystery of
Green Lodge

The Wedding
The Auction
The River Mist

SWEDISH
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
Night Watch

The Bookworm

THAI
Night Watch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

Daisy Macbeth

TURKISH
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
Night Watch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

UKRAINIAN
The Search for Lorna
Daisy Macbeth

VENETO 

The Search for Lorna

YORUBA
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Night Watch

ZULU
The Search for Lorna


 

 
A la recherche de Lorna The search for Lorna

Daisy Hamilton était détective privée.

Daisy Hamilton was a private detective.

Elle avait trente ans, et avait été détective durant les deux années précédentes.

She was thirty years old and had been a detective for the past two years.

Chaque matin elle allait à son bureau, pour attendre des appels téléphoniques ou ouvrir sa porte à des clients  ayant besoin de ses services.

Every morning she went to her office to wait for phone calls or open the door to clients needing her services.

Daisy n'était pas encore très bien connue, mais parfois des gens lui téléphonaient suite à la publicité qu'elle avait placée dans le journal local.

Daisy wasn't very well known yet but occasionally people telephoned her from the advertisement she had put in the local newspaper.

Un matin vers onze heures quelqu'un frappa à la porte de son bureau.

One morning at about eleven o'clock someone knocked on her office door.

C'était une dame forte qui portait une fourrure autour du cou.

It was a fat lady who wore a fur around her neck.

"Hello, puis-je vous aider ?" demanda Daisy à la dame. "Entrez s'il vous plaît, et asseyez-vous."

"Hello, can I help you?" Daisy asked the lady. "Please come and sit down."

"Oh oui bien sûr ! J'ai besoin désespérément de votre aide.

"Oh yes indeed! I need your help desperately.

Lorna, ma petite, a disparu. Je ne sais pas quoi faire."

Lorna, my little one has disappeared. I don't know what to do."

Daisy offrit à la dame forte une tasse de café instantané et attendit les détails.

Daisy offered the fat lady a cup of instant coffee and awaited the details.

La dame forte s'assit lourdement et posa son gros sac à main en cuir rouge sur le bureau de Daisy.

The fat lady sat down heavily and put her large red leather handbag on Daisy's desk.

"S'il vous plaît dites-moi tout - Mme … ?"

"Please tell me everything - Mrs. ...?"

"Je m'appelle Mme Edwina Humphries. Je crains qu'ils me réclament une rançon - J'ai peur que Lorna ait été kidnappée !"

"Mrs. Edwina Humphries is my name. I am afraid they will ask me for money - I'm afraid Lorna has been kidnapped!"

"C'est terrible, Mme Humphries. Est-ce que M. Humphries pense, lui aussi, que Lorna a été kidnappée ?"

"That's terrible, Mrs. Humphries. Does Mr. Humphries, too, think Lorna has been kidnapped?"

"Mon mari n'est pas intéressé par le fait que Lorna ait ou non été kidnappée !"

"My husband is not interested if Lorna has been kidnapped or not!"

"Vraiment, Mme Humphries ? Mais votre mari est-il le vrai père de Lorna ?"

"Really, Mrs. Humphries? But is your husband Lorna's real father?"

"Je ne comprends pas ce que vous voulez dire. Nous avons acheté Lorna ensemble," répondit Mme Humphries.

"I don't know what you mean. We bought Lorna together," replied Mrs. Humphries.

"Vous avez acheté …….. Mme Humphries, c'est illégal, vous savez."

"You bought ............Mrs. Humphries, that's illegal, you know."

"Non ça ne l'est pas, pas aux Indes !"

"No it isn't, not in India!"

"Vous avez acheté Lorna aux Indes ?"

"You bought Lorna in India?"

"Oui bien sûr. Et elle me tient toujours bien compagnie, vous savez."

Yes indeed! And she always keeps me great company, you know."

Mme Humphries ouvrit son énorme sac de cuir pour en sortir un mouchoir.

"Mrs. Humphries opened her huge leather bag to pull out a handkerchief.

Horrifiée Daisy vit une créature ondulante sortir de ce sac.

With horror Daisy saw a wiggling creature come out of that bag.

"Mme Humphries - enlevez ça immédiatement !" hurla Daisy.

"Mrs. Humphries - move that away immediately!" screamed Daisy.

"Quoi ? Oh Lorna  - je t'ai enfin trouvée !" dit Mme Humphries. "Tu te cachais dans mon sac, vilaine fille !"

"What? Oh Lorna - I've found you at last!" said Mrs. Humphries."You hid in my bag - you naughty girl!"

"Mme Humphries, c'est ça Lorna ?"

"Mrs. Humphries. This is Lorna?"

"Oui, c'est notre serpent des marais du Bengale. Oh merci ma chère. Non, je ne crois pas avoir besoin de vos services plus longtemps !"

Yes, our Bengali swamp snake. Oh thank you my dear. No, I don't think I need your services any longer!"

Tout en refermant la porte derrière Mme Humphries, Daisy nota mentalement d'écrire dans son annonce : pas d'animaux, pas de serpents.

As Daisy shut the door after Mrs. Humphries, she made a mental note to write in the advertisement: no animals, no snakes.

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DAISY STORIES TEMPLATES

The Search for Lorna

The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
Night Watch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm
The Oak
Imogen
The Mystery of
Green Lodge

A Matter of Justice
The Wedding

ARRANGER STORIES TEMPLATES

The Auction
The River Mist