"With your permission," replied Philippe, squeezing her hand as if in a vice. "Come! we must have a...
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then go and make inquiries from place to place. Let us know, by dessert, which road Mademoiselle Br...
finds you gone, he'll go beside himself, and want to follow you. Well! when he does, I'll give him ...
Vedie was sent to wait upon him, and found him in the morning with his eyes swollen and red with we...
At the end of a week Philippe had a new suit of clothes,--coat, waistcoat, and trousers,--of good b...
endeavored to bring the Order into disrepute by bestowing its cross right and left, there were not ...
studio. She laid it all out on the table; not forgetting a flask of brandy, which, however, was onl...
have no right to-- Here, here is your money," she said to Madame Descoings, adding Joseph's three h...
Unconsciously, her hands by a desperate movement had dishevelled the hair about her brow; and this ...
"You ought," said Madame Descoings to Philippe during the last days of December, "you ought to get ...
No one has understood this opium of poverty. The lottery, all-powerful fairy of the poor, bestowed ...
child." Terrible revelation of the inward thought of the poor woman on the conduct of her son. "M...
good news, and you both look like tombstones. The Duc de Berry is dead, is he?--well, so much the b...
which they based on the building of a submarine vessel, expected to bring about the deliverance of ...
himself persecuted; and the effect of that idea is to make persons who are unintelligent persecutor...