spirits rose. It was as if I had laid a wager with myself, for I was at once the player and the car...
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to outshine the heroes or the swaggerers to be found in her circle. When I believed that I had left...
drove through the streets of Paris, lolling on the soft cushions of a fine equipage. I plunged into...
absurd superstitions. " 'You are very credulous, Pauline!' " 'The woman whom you will love is goin...
pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. Suppose a merchant runs a risk of a million,...
bejeweled scent-bottle hung. It gave me a quite indescribable pleasure to watch the feline grace of...
the mistress of the house, as she came and went, sat and chatted, beckoned to this one or that, ask...
doorway of the theatre. At the sight of a well-dressed woman about to cross the street, a commissio...
in a while, to give lessons myself, and then we can keep a servant.' "I stole away softly, made som...
Byrons who, having crumpled up their lives like a serviette after dinner, have nothing left to do b...
"What is the name of that young man over there?" said the notary, indicating Raphael. "I thought I ...
moralists and politicians, the laws you set up are always to go before those of nature, and opinion...
crime. The Parisienne was not wanting in all her beauty that consists in an indescribable charm; ar...
to tell him." "Venture!" said the young man; "then is your master a prince?" "I don't know what he...
for it; and these are the virtues you prescribe to woman. And that is not enough. By way of requiti...