The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS I In a Spanish city on an i...
2011-12-13
woman loved to frenzy; a woman so carefully hidden from the world's eyes, so deeply buried in the b...
head. He had leant his face on his hands, unable at first to bear the intolerable emotion that surg...
The General bowed his head to regain self-control; when he looked up again he saw her face beyond t...
eggs. When things had come to that pass, they could not well be settled without a good deal of figh...
was manoeuvred as if it had been a review; Eylau, where the Russians were drowned in a lake, just a...
putting nonsense into other nations' heads, and stirring them up to revolt. In short, we cleared a ...
falls to the lot of every other; even Gondrin has not missed that." Genestas held out his hand, a s...
strength is yet further increased by the undaunted courage of youthful convictions. "Childhood in ...
by slow degrees I became politely civil; and one day, by a sort of tacit agreement between us, she ...
natural in manner, as in word and deed. His natural aptitude had made his other studies easy to him...
this uniform tidiness pervaded the smallest details. Yet there was something very attractive about ...
"I ventured to think that Evelina's love would be stronger than her father's scruples, that her inf...
whatever unless he has unlimited freedom of action. Suppose that he has been guilty of some irrepar...
who used to be so thin and pale when the burden of her husband's cares and anxieties used to press ...