name he bore, the elder branch would have been as securely seated on the throne as the House of Han...
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a coquette, and above all things a Parisienne, loving a brilliant life and gaiety, reflecting never...
she did not even go so far as to form a wish. One evening she chanced to be at the house of an inti...
weariness flowed over his fevered cheeks; he was bowed down with fatigue upon fatigue, his throat s...
Paris cares to take what other women have passed over. The dread of being taken for a fool is the s...
"I have kept you waiting," she said, with the tone that a woman can always bring into her voice for...
admiration, to talk of war with a soldier, wax enthusiastic with philanthropists over the good of t...
grew less unkind. Her words were sweet and soothing. They were lovers--lovers only could have been ...
neighbour; and, in a word, the interests of all honest people personified. There, my friend, just b...
"But these troubles of mine, Captain Bluteau----" "Do not call me Captain Bluteau," cried Genestas,...
Russian advance if we meant to draw off during the night. Again and again we charged, and for three...
well-dressed Parisian woman, against whose glances he felt that he was not proof. The soldier turne...
along the beach he turned and saw me on duty ten paces from him. " 'Well, Genestas,' he said, as he...
urgently needed. He said to me, 'I shall have to go, though I never care to set out on horseback wh...
"Well, like every one else in the canton, colonel, I feel sorrow for his loss, but no one knows as ...