have seemed so. An aquiline nose contrasted curiously with the narrowness of her forehead; for it i...
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handsome things she had admired from her youth up she suddenly suspected of age and absurdity. In s...
observation, in days when religion is nothing more than a useful means to some, and a poesy to othe...
the little attentions with which he was petted; you might have thought him a cherished lover, whose...
always came into such hands we shouldn't see a beggar in the country." Another said: "Dear me, I sh...
fainting upon that bed, you were enchanting. I have never in my life seen a more beautiful person,-...
"THEY are all in the garden." No doubt the assembled stomachs were impatient; for on the appearance...
period of life when a man has judged men and social interests and relations,--the opinions for whic...
Bousquier; but pray explain to me why a woman is depraved because she prefers one man to another." ...
questioned about him in certain houses when they carried home the linen, they always spoke respectf...
penury. A man ruined by the First Consul interested the town of Alencon, to which he now returned, ...
assume the leadership of the liberal party in Alencon. After such a marriage he would, of course, r...
another; and their souls in emulation seemed to stir and communicate the thoughts within them until...
the love of a young man of twenty-three for an old maid of forty. And yet his passion was real; wha...
PARIS, January 183l. ADDENDUM The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy...