"My son," she said, "you are so surrounded by true affection that I never thought how my thoughtles...
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me; I would not have you other than you are in this letter, the first--oh, may it not be the last! ...
your charity, what next? what do you expect? I have neither the genius nor the splendid position of...
satiety cast her, saturated as she still was with Catholic spirituality, into the love of Good, the...
the follies which are you able to make a poet commit. If so, you have done a bad deed. Your two let...
This letter fell like a cobble-stone on a tulip. A poet, secretary of claims, getting a stipend in ...
not be shared. For every hundred readers, eighty might weary of the battle. The respect due to the ...
and had learned a good deal of life during his four years in a minister's cabinet. Kindly, amiable,...
his loss and also the terrible results on your mother's health and eyesight; prepare him for the sh...
baffled hope that gleamed in Melmoth's eyes; he, too, knew the thirst that burned those red lips, a...
Dumay sent agents to represent his master in New York, Paris, and London, and followed up the assig...
mingled with the excited eagerness of hope, and, beneath it all, a gnawing sense of loathing for al...
Did you ever hear the like? Then, after Napoleon's campaigns, the lines are full of sonorous brass ...
of a practitioner well known on the walls of Paris, and succumbed to the effects of an overdose of ...
classes delight, well-made, well-fleshed, and with a fine complexion, abandoned his betrothed so ha...