to me, and I have helped her so often, and always had money for her when she had none.--But never m...
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But it was the joke about the Venus of Pere-Lachaise that finally decided his fate. Mlle. Michonnea...
too, that Nucingen had sent bills for large amounts to Amsterdam, London, Naples, and Vienna, in or...
"Just go and see if you can find some ether," said Mlle. Michonneau to Mme. Vauquer; the former, wi...
so only just now. We were talking about you, and she insisted that you were beautiful, and that she...
"There's a sell for you, master crusher," the convict added, looking at the famous director of poli...
He wanted to be back at the Maison Vauquer. Father Goriot had left his room, and was just sitting d...
"Gentlemen, this is not manners! If you turn people out of the house, it ought not to be done so un...
possession, but I cannot accept it from you, and I am too poor as yet to----" "Ah! ah! you say me ...
Goriot, Rastignac watched as though in a dream how Mme. Vauquer busied herself by collecting the bo...
myself. The wildest thoughts came into my head. There have been moments in my life when I have envi...
young man of fashion can live here in the Rue Neuve-Sainte- Genevieve, in the Maison Vauquer--an ex...
green, and dearly bought, was no less delicious to the taste. There were moments when he had not a ...
such a man would continue to lend an ear to this supposed independent gentleman of the Rue de Buffo...
scrutinized him when he sat beside Mme. de Nucingen, and inferred that the Countess' doors would no...