Philippe was one of the faithful Bonapartes of the cafe Lemblin, that constitutional Boeotia; he ac...
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uttered a word of reproach. So Philippe and Joseph were cossetted, and the old gambler in the Imper...
attaching immense importance to simple matters; and they are often thought over-scrupulous. But the...
During the visits which Roland's secretary paid to the unfortunate Madame Descoings, he was struck ...
The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac Tranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Mons...
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bear extreme felicity. "Daniel, they have calumniated me, and you have avenged me!" she cried, ris...
during the first half-hour of this visit. Diane d'Uxelles cautiously avoided, as she would the wear...
and daughter placed as we then were. But I braved them all, my mother, my husband, the world, by pu...
her, insensibly, to her slave. At last, however, Diane grew impatient with an Epictetus of love; an...
may be characterized as not vice, only the other side of it. The princess began by sending for d'Ar...
The beginning of this passion was, as in the case of almost all deep thinkers, an idea. Looking at ...
d'Arthez. Our man of genius is by nature, it seems, a savage; he fears women, and has never loved! ...
beard, whom I have often seen at the opera, and who was leading the attack, threw up the man's gun,...
pretensions. In her late social circle it was said that Diane was writing a book. Since her transfo...