complimenting the dress as if it were a book he had published the day before. "Yes," said Raoul, i...
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Raoul; as it was, it became so irksome that many men, even those of the strongest constitutions, co...
"And unmakes ministries," added Madame de Manerville. The countess was silent; she wanted to answer...
praise. Madame de Vandenesse, feeling this change in public opinion, was desirous of knowing if her...
an hour, while a delicious smell of roast poultry pervaded the whole house. At last, however, a kno...
La Blanchotte's son appeared in his turn upon the threshold of the school. He was seven or eight y...
remains so fragile that, in spite of the shy reserve La Blanchotte maintained, they already gossipe...
October 10. Yet another. I was walking by the river, after breakfast. And I saw, under a willow, a ...
her father's shoulder, and jumped lightly down. The youth with the yellow hair had got down by step...
Robinson's,[1] because Madame Dufour is thirsty." Then he bent over his oars again and rowed off so...
A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Ma...
This great unknown artist belonged to the kindly class of the self- forgetting, who give their time...
beneath the malicious despotism of a self-made man on leaving the maternal prison. Angelique, whose...
the affair. My interests demand that the man shall go to prison. Remember my orders." Madame du Ti...
Before they had reached an altitude of 600 feet they noticed a sensible diminution of the temperatu...