Marcellus and Jacob were seated side by side. Marcellus described the happiness he had felt under t...
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moments all would be over! But for once Mannaeus did not perform a commission satisfactorily. He l...
Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert CHAPTER I THE FEAST It was at Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the ...
The crowd applauded and howled with joy. HE knew it, he who had commanded them over yonder, and had...
the Ursulines at Honfleur. The child made no objection, but Felicite sighed and thought Madame was...
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Malaga wine, and Virginia, laughing at the idea of becoming intoxicated, would drink a few drops of...
cigar in his face; another time, Madame Lormeau was teasing him with the tip of her umbrella and he...
blazing thunderbolt, hurled in might from its holy home, smite the barque of Menelaus full amidship...
Her eyesight grew dim. She did not open the shutters after that. Many years passed. But the house d...
HECUBA From my own dear country, to dwell beneath a master's roof. Woe is me! O Priam, Priam, unbu...
Herodias by Gustave Flaubert CHAPTER I In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Ma...
A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert CHAPTER I For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque ha...
farther side of Machaerus disappeared behind the castle; others ascended from the valleys, and afte...
It was a bull which was hidden from them by the fog. He advanced towards the two women, and Madame ...
carried, but weapons chastely plain. Next, prince Hippomedon came marching to the Ogygian port with...