"I have kept you waiting," she said, with the tone that a woman can always bring into her voice for...
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the very foundations of her clear accurate language, and a language must always be the most infalli...
admiration, to talk of war with a soldier, wax enthusiastic with philanthropists over the good of t...
name he bore, the elder branch would have been as securely seated on the throne as the House of Han...
grew less unkind. Her words were sweet and soothing. They were lovers--lovers only could have been ...
a coquette, and above all things a Parisienne, loving a brilliant life and gaiety, reflecting never...
neighbour; and, in a word, the interests of all honest people personified. There, my friend, just b...
she did not even go so far as to form a wish. One evening she chanced to be at the house of an inti...
weariness flowed over his fevered cheeks; he was bowed down with fatigue upon fatigue, his throat s...
head. He had leant his face on his hands, unable at first to bear the intolerable emotion that surg...
well-dressed Parisian woman, against whose glances he felt that he was not proof. The soldier turne...
The General bowed his head to regain self-control; when he looked up again he saw her face beyond t...
along the beach he turned and saw me on duty ten paces from him. " 'Well, Genestas,' he said, as he...
urgently needed. He said to me, 'I shall have to go, though I never care to set out on horseback wh...
"Well, like every one else in the canton, colonel, I feel sorrow for his loss, but no one knows as ...