too unreasonable with him." The countess got into a hackney-coach and was driven rapidly to the ne...
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know how keen our sympathy for them is, any more than the world will know how beautiful are their l...
Raising his head, his eyes met those of the sisters. With that charming feminine readiness which is...
the forehead, Sundays.'--'Are you afraid of him?'--'Ah, no, no; isn't he my godfather? he wouldn't ...
seldom." This thought dried the tears in his eyes as he gave his arm to his beautiful pupil, who f...
himself where you saw him, and since he has been there he has never said one word." The fisherman ...
"To do the thing well, a woman ought to fasten upon some good prey, a celebrity, a man of enough wi...
In this difficult extremity Raoul dropped Florine's arm, and though she caught his own and held it ...
A Second Home The Country Parson La Roche-Hugon, Martial de Domestic Peace The Peasantry The Me...
praise. Madame de Vandenesse, feeling this change in public opinion, was desirous of knowing if her...
the embers to see if a spark were yet alive, Madame Felix de Vandenesse was undergoing those violen...
corner of a garret on an earthenware stove, to that which convokes the tribes of pot-bellied chefs ...
"From my uncle," replied Raoul. Florine knew Raoul's "uncle." The word meant usury, as in popular ...
complimenting the dress as if it were a book he had published the day before. "Yes," said Raoul, i...
mingle in conversations. Intelligent ideas and delicate observations put into her mind by her inter...