observation, in days when religion is nothing more than a useful means to some, and a poesy to othe...
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always came into such hands we shouldn't see a beggar in the country." Another said: "Dear me, I sh...
"THEY are all in the garden." No doubt the assembled stomachs were impatient; for on the appearance...
period of life when a man has judged men and social interests and relations,--the opinions for whic...
Bousquier; but pray explain to me why a woman is depraved because she prefers one man to another." ...
Presently, in spite of a driving rain, Mademoiselle Cormon drove away from Prebaudet, leaving her f...
handsome things she had admired from her youth up she suddenly suspected of age and absurdity. In s...
the little attentions with which he was petted; you might have thought him a cherished lover, whose...
fainting upon that bed, you were enchanting. I have never in my life seen a more beautiful person,-...
another; and their souls in emulation seemed to stir and communicate the thoughts within them until...
PARIS, January 183l. ADDENDUM The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy...
An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur...
compliments, of which he was stingy, won the good graces of all the old women; he made himself agre...
questioned about him in certain houses when they carried home the linen, they always spoke respectf...
penury. A man ruined by the First Consul interested the town of Alencon, to which he now returned, ...