his client from concessions. "We are concerned now with the interests and welfare of three generati...
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the girl, whose beauty was enhanced by the blush which the pleasure of this answer brought to her f...
their clients, often barring the way to extravagance and dissipation, --men to whom families confid...
"But," she added, to herself, "if the negotiation does not succeed at once, I shall leave Bordeaux....
expressed a haughty pride in keeping with her hand, her chin, her brows, and her beautiful figure. ...
may not have been the only motive for it. Madame Evangelista had been, it was said, in love with a ...
mind, always, so to speak, in half-tints, was better appreciated than in Paris. The arrangement of...
social academician. It's pitiable! The old bachelor whose property the heirs are waiting for, who f...
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face; she hovered above the slopes of the hills and their little hamlets, and seemed to bar the pas...
"To sleep; for so one keeps alive, at any rate," the patient answered. "Let no one come in, not eve...
"No better and no worse," she said. "He coughed all last night again fit to kill himself. Poor gent...
Oftentimes at sunrise or at sunset a ray of bright sunlight would penetrate between two sheer surfa...
"This sort of joke has been perpetrated before, sir, in garrison towns at the time of the Empire; b...
carefully prescribed rule of diet, so as to soothe the internal irritation"--here Brisset signified...