the vague presence of approaching disaster. But after breakfast, when his friends gathered round hi...
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For want of exercising in nature's own way the activity bestowed upon women, and yet impelled to sp...
natural character, which prompted him to avoid a quarrel. Torn by this inward misery, Birotteau fel...
exactly where she placed it; and the abbe annoyed her terribly by moving it, which he did nearly ev...
himself in good faith. But those whom we offend by such unconscious selfishness pay little heed to ...
wishes as crimes, would have been capable, out of contrition, of the utmost devotion to his friend....
The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To D...
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan's Life The Firm of Nucingen A Man of ...
"I shall have ten millions two years from now," said Philippe Bridau. "It is now the 16th of Januar...
Is it decent that the Comtesse Bridau de Brambourg should die in a hospital, no matter what may hav...
answer she had received from him. The artist went to his atelier and picked up the letter, whose co...
francs; of which he paid one hundred and fifty thousand down, taking two years to pay the remainder...
hundred thousand francs, and a life annuity of thirty thousand more. After the wedding, which was s...
have fled the house where, in the room above her, Max's room, and in Max's bed, lay and suffered Ma...
my friends! I ask permission to propose the first toast." "He said MY FRIENDS, don't fill your glas...