Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell Dedicated to my de...
2011-12-12
Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage To the great and illustrious Geoff...
temperature!" cried the Colonel, a little nettled at so soon finding a rival in his friend. "What!...
invariably attaches to a discarded lover. The lawyer proudly raised his head and looked at the stra...
Fleury [leaving the room]. "I don't care; I am offered a place as responsible editor. I shall have ...
he read with amazement and stupefaction a deed of purchase which seemed wafted to him from the clou...
paltry salary as mine any longer; I shall deprive the government of my co-operation." [Departs amid...
and the great world do not restrain them. You would hardly believe, however, how the injudicious co...
so doing you'll play the game of all the big people, and help the minister, the court, the clergy,-...
ministries; their accounts to be kept in future at the Treasury. Saillard is rich and does not need...
coachman. "Hi, Jean!" he called out to him; "Monseigneur has gone with the minister of war; they a...
"Come, come, Celestine," said Rabourdin; "mix up ideas as much as you please, and make fun of them,...
Talleyrand was supposed to hail all events of whatever kind with a bon mot, so in these days of the...
"At last I find the husband of my dreams!" she cried. "My ignorance of your real merit has saved yo...
Almoner, he made no difficulty. He took pains to insert it in a conspicuous place. I should never h...