virtuous Gazonal. "It is amusing! People may cry up the pleasures of hunting and fishing as much a...
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now a procession defiling before you, one after the other, of men of talent, little and great, arti...
Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION T...
"He is right," said Eve; "you yourself were saying, were you not, that he ought to go to Paris at o...
opinions of this man whom his daughter had singled out for notice. Lucien's extreme beauty made suc...
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us in an equivocal position. I was treating the boy as he deserved. If the young scatterbrain knew ...
irrationally, anything becomes them, and it is who shall be first to justify their conduct; then, o...
"Who may she be? What kind of victual does she eat?" "She is the daughter of the late M. Chardon, t...
the pages, though yellow and faded, would still be legible, the work would not be destroyed. "Ther...
Bargeton's, he must not be my foreman any longer, poor fellow! He ought not to live in L'Houmeau; y...
unless it were followed up by contemptuous indifference; so they showed their tacit disdain for the...
Down to our world below. God looked in pity on earth, and the Angel, reading His thought, Came dow...
creatures produce, I shall ask permission to go over to Severac, so that my Camille may see how the...
ci-devant young man, slim still at five-and-forty, with a countenance like a sieve. His cravat was ...
the border line between harmless vacancy, with some glimmerings of sense, and the excessive stupidi...