Almoner, he made no difficulty. He took pains to insert it in a conspicuous place. I should never h...
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paid him. He stood very well with des Lupeaulx, whom he thought his friend, and they often breakfas...
right moment. Elisabeth saw through the window-panes the two faces of Gobseck and Gigonnet (her unc...
Dauphin's death?" Bixiou. "What's Gorix, pray?--the name of a cat?" Colleville [provoked]. "It is ...
took your article to the newspaper office I met a young abbe who brought in a letter from the Grand...
I believe. I've rung three times and can't get him." [Baudoyer and Bixiou retire into the private o...
Opera. Her call, however, answered the same purpose. In a moment, another phenomenon! the salon ass...
of the article, which was as follows: "Monsieur des Lupeaulx. A government degrades itself by openl...
he said, with a mysterious glance. The minister looked at the clock and went towards the window, wh...
Billardiere, his nightmare, his detestation, whom he was nevertheless constantly wheedling so as th...
Amid these curious relics, Madame Saillard always sat on a sofa of modern mahogany, near a fireplac...
two clerks, by dint of quarrelling over the details of their lives, and washing much of their dirty...
ties, by the inflexibility of its customs, by one solitary emotion, that of avarice, a passion whic...
church, what the company's child is to the regiment, what the figurante is to a theatre; something ...
which he has really no competitor and no rival." "That is true." "Well, then," she resumed, smilin...