"Poor Camille can hardly keep awake," the Vicomtesse hastily broke in. --"Go to bed, child; you hav...
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from impending destitution. I resolved to strain the law at need to gain my ends, and this was what...
dying gesture, in the convulsive clutch of his claw-like hands. The pillow had been flung to the fl...
his coffees. There had been a dispute over each article, the first indication in Gobseck of the chi...
humbled yesterday when I had not the twelve thousand francs, that I would have given the rest of my...
men bedizened with decorations, stars, and ribbons, men who bore the most illustrious names in Fran...
turned his dull eyes upon Eugene, looked at him attentively, and did not recognize him. It was more...
to a proper close. If you but knew how much they made of me just after they were married. (Oh! this...
left alone upon our deathbeds, and they are not with us then. They ought to pass a law for dying fa...
"Here, madame" he said in disgust, "let us square accounts. M. Goriot will not stay much longer in ...
The Secrets of a Princess A Man of Business Cousin Betty The Muse of the Department The Unconsci...
Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and others DEDICATION To Madame la Pr...
manufacturer, there M. Fritot is first; but as a salesman. He discovered the 'Selim shawl,' AN ABSO...
Gobseck by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage DEDICATION To M. le Baron Barchou de Pe...
But it was the joke about the Venus of Pere-Lachaise that finally decided his fate. Mlle. Michonnea...