Pharsalia, [Civil War] by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus BOOK I THE CROSSING OF THE RUBICON Wars worse t...
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of Madam de Cleves, than did Monsieur de Nemours himself; they began to examine what issue could re...
"but that you may the better pardon the boldness I showed in listening to what you said, remember i...
made a journey to Paris, and constantly visited her during the time she stayed there: she entertain...
hand to him to withdraw; "Go," says he, "I see what you have to say to me, but I have not the power...
lady he adored, to see her without her knowing that he saw her, and to find her wholly taken up wit...
pleasing uncertainty. He immediately went into his wife's room, and after having talked to her for ...
In the evening, when all was almost over, and the company ready to break up, so it was for the misf...
equally impossible that her husband should, or should not have spoken of it. What the Duke de Nemou...
words, which she could not apply to herself, since she thought nobody knew anything of her passion ...
a different nature from that he had had before; what chiefly employed his thoughts, was a desire to...
be fatigued, and one cannot but desire repose." "Repose," answered he, "is not very proper for one ...
what can she imagine? She will think, and not without reason, that this letter concerns myself, and...
draw me out of this difficulty"; "I think you must go to the Queen-Dauphin as soon as she is awake,...
turns she came up to me, and bid me follow her; `I would speak with you,' says she, `and by what I ...