absurd superstitions. " 'You are very credulous, Pauline!' " 'The woman whom you will love is goin...
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to outshine the heroes or the swaggerers to be found in her circle. When I believed that I had left...
This world has aspects that are very vilely dishonorable.' " 'Yes,' said Rastignac, 'that is all ve...
in a while, to give lessons myself, and then we can keep a servant.' "I stole away softly, made som...
doorway of the theatre. At the sight of a well-dressed woman about to cross the street, a commissio...
the mistress of the house, as she came and went, sat and chatted, beckoned to this one or that, ask...
pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. Suppose a merchant runs a risk of a million,...
drove through the streets of Paris, lolling on the soft cushions of a fine equipage. I plunged into...
spirits rose. It was as if I had laid a wager with myself, for I was at once the player and the car...
was comprised in this 'account rendered,' my future lay in a linen bag with eleven hundred and twel...
he threatened to ship me off as a cabin-boy to the Antilles. A dreadful shiver ran through me if I ...
for it; and these are the virtues you prescribe to woman. And that is not enough. By way of requiti...
crime. The Parisienne was not wanting in all her beauty that consists in an indescribable charm; ar...
moralists and politicians, the laws you set up are always to go before those of nature, and opinion...
"What is the name of that young man over there?" said the notary, indicating Raphael. "I thought I ...