mechanic distrusts the machine which the traveller admires; and the officers of the army might be c...
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Dumay sent agents to represent his master in New York, Paris, and London, and followed up the assig...
Did you ever hear the like? Then, after Napoleon's campaigns, the lines are full of sonorous brass ...
classes delight, well-made, well-fleshed, and with a fine complexion, abandoned his betrothed so ha...
husband's stockings; get back to your needles." Though such speeches showed that the grand provost ...
XI. made a sign. Marie appeared, followed by her old husband, who allowed her to pass in first. "G...
"Are all those persons to take part in the inquiry?" he said to the king. Louis XI. could not help...
You might fear any one but me." "Ah, sire!" cried Cornelius, flinging himself at the king's feet, "...
Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage To Monsieur le General Baron ...
coloring of the long oval face, indicated quite as plainly as the cut of his clothes that the man w...
wolf, and a sheep shall not make a fool of me. Castanier, old man, before you set up housekeeping, ...
When at length it was evidently impossible to borrow any longer, whether because the amount of the ...
that of nightmare, and he could not move a limb. Nay, the man himself was the nightmare; his presen...
"You know me too well to believe it," Castanier retorted. Aquilina was benumbed by his coolness. "...
Madame Firmiani by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To my d...