The Purse by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell To Sofka "Have you observed, mademoiselle...
2011-12-13
their adversary. The Poles are the only men in Europe who fight for the pleasure of fighting; they ...
order to sell it to you again. The incident did really happen to Maxime de Trailles about nine year...
one word unseal your eyes! But, if that does not suffice, learn that your notes have been protested...
aside such serious attacks. Are you not deceived in him? However, I will obey you; I will make him ...
you; perhaps already on the vessel which is to take me to India, where I am going to repair my shat...
bill of exchange for one hundred and fifty thousand francs." "I hope I may. If that be so, cannot y...
I know the world, and men, and things; I have seen the peace of many a home destroyed by the blind ...
it is a condition of all species of power. You cannot diversify happiness by the cares of property ...
becomes a diplomatist, a coward is suddenly brave. Hate made this prodigal woman a miser. Chance an...
"Madame, I did not, it is true, calculate the effect of the deeds of gift. But if you do not wish C...
when we sign the contract, just as the government flings a fete to the people in the great square o...
these things. Perhaps I can avoid sinking any of my fortune in an annuity." "What a beautiful pear...
"Well," said Achilles to Nestor, as the cabriolet rolled away, "you have been truly patriarchal to-...
deprive her of the benefits of her maternity." "Mathias," cried Paul, in deep distress, "there are ...