exactly where she placed it; and the abbe annoyed her terribly by moving it, which he did nearly ev...
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by admitting you are an accomplice.") There was silence for a moment. "Mademoiselle Gamard's tempo...
natural character, which prompted him to avoid a quarrel. Torn by this inward misery, Birotteau fel...
de Listomere under a pretence of undue influence! A few days after the case was brought the baron w...
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have fled the house where, in the room above her, Max's room, and in Max's bed, lay and suffered Ma...
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hundred thousand francs, and a life annuity of thirty thousand more. After the wedding, which was s...
wishes as crimes, would have been capable, out of contrition, of the utmost devotion to his friend....
francs; of which he paid one hundred and fifty thousand down, taking two years to pay the remainder...
himself in good faith. But those whom we offend by such unconscious selfishness pay little heed to ...
answer she had received from him. The artist went to his atelier and picked up the letter, whose co...
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"I shall have ten millions two years from now," said Philippe Bridau. "It is now the 16th of Januar...
At the end of a week Philippe had a new suit of clothes,--coat, waistcoat, and trousers,--of good b...