two clerks, by dint of quarrelling over the details of their lives, and washing much of their dirty...
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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...
life still more sorrowful; for she now felt the suffering her uncle must have endured in witnessing...
Italian poet makes Angelica prefer Medoro, who was a blond Chevalier de Valois, to Orlando, whose m...
Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To the Comt...
Rabourdin. Was it not her husband's duty to give her a suitable position in the world? If she were ...
excellent sale, for the house had only cost him twenty-seven thousand francs. The believers were de...
Superior men could scarcely bring themselves to tread these tortuous ways, to stoop, to cringe, and...
Often the world can enter fully into the nature of their loss: their son, admired, appreciated, you...
better for the prosperity of the country. Therefore, supposing there are six millions of tax-payers...
The town of Alencon gabbled for two weeks over this luxury, which seemed unparalleled; but a few mo...
intrepid Voltairean, yet punctual at mass if a fashionable company could be met in Saint Thomas Aqu...
have seemed so. An aquiline nose contrasted curiously with the narrowness of her forehead; for it i...