torches! Jeanne belonged henceforth to misery. Scarcely had she time to say to her young cousin who...
2011-12-13
The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Madame...
"Just get that into the electors' heads!" said Bixiou. "Some one has undertaken to do it." "Who?" ...
quarter, coming up to worry him. He shuddered in spite of himself. " 'Things are looking bad. There...
knots. Rastignac trembled for Delphine's money. He stipulated that Delphine must be independent and...
she knows that there is no religion left. The story of Richard Lenoir is one of those blunders whic...
republic or monarchy down their throats; even if the loan has been floated, as Couture says, to pay...
Rue Joubert. "At that time the rascal possessed something like eighteen hundred thousand francs; m...
in Bonapartist circles. His capital he handed over to Nucingen, who gave him eight per cent upon it...
circumstance that enabled them to hide the dolorous spectacle of the funeral from the sorrowing Bar...
voluptuous decorous dance? Such a girl does not knock audaciously at your heart, like the dark-hair...
milord spoke to him, and his noble master might, perhaps, have pardoned that breach of the law dome...
round genius. The elephant of finance would contract to deliver votes on a division, or the Greeks ...
lying in bed till noon because a crisis never finds him asleep." "So far so good, but just get to h...
The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac Translated by James Waring TO MADAME ZULMA CARRAUD To w...