praise. Madame de Vandenesse, feeling this change in public opinion, was desirous of knowing if her...
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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 ...
La Blanchotte's son appeared in his turn upon the threshold of the school. He was seven or eight y...
her father's shoulder, and jumped lightly down. The youth with the yellow hair had got down by step...
remains so fragile that, in spite of the shy reserve La Blanchotte maintained, they already gossipe...
Robinson's,[1] because Madame Dufour is thirsty." Then he bent over his oars again and rowed off so...
A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Ma...
This great unknown artist belonged to the kindly class of the self- forgetting, who give their time...
beneath the malicious despotism of a self-made man on leaving the maternal prison. Angelique, whose...
the affair. My interests demand that the man shall go to prison. Remember my orders." Madame du Ti...
an hour, while a delicious smell of roast poultry pervaded the whole house. At last, however, a kno...
October 10. Yet another. I was walking by the river, after breakfast. And I saw, under a willow, a ...
when Servadac announced to them the discovery of their future domicile; and with requickened energi...