breakfasting with his uncle Cardot, and still less in going to see his mother, who lived even more ...
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This day, Sunday, June 27th, were imbibed twelve bottles of twelve different wines, regarded as exq...
During the five years of silver and gold Pere Cardot had laid by eighty thousand francs. The old ge...
1830. At half-past three the solid eating of the feast began; the dessert did not appear till eigh...
"It is enough to kill you to lead such a life!" cried old Cardot; "and look at the broken glasses! ...
unfortunately, your wife. But as for me, it is another thing. I shall be of age in a few months; an...
poverty. This coat, which had seen long service at balls, had now, like its master, passed from the...
"I am not the driver," said Pierrotin. "What are you, then?" asked Colonel Husson. "The proprietor...
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Cesar Birotteau Letters of Two Brides The Marriage Settlement...
truth, all the rest, the ten thousand talari, the thousand gold pieces, and the fine weapons, were ...
"Well, you have only eight hundred now to get," remarked the count, who considered this moan, addre...
"Do you breakfast here?" "No," said the artist. "I am expected at the chateau. Besides, I took som...
Oscar; "my stomach is much too delicate to digest the victuals of a tavern." "'Victuals' is a word...
Moulineaux, has slipped away so adroitly that when the fat countryman looked round for his colonel ...
supported them. The Moreaus, who were very friendly with Grindot the architect, had received notic...