"With your permission," replied Philippe, squeezing her hand as if in a vice. "Come! we must have a...
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my friends! I ask permission to propose the first toast." "He said MY FRIENDS, don't fill your glas...
Philippe was one of the faithful Bonapartes of the cafe Lemblin, that constitutional Boeotia; he ac...
himself persecuted; and the effect of that idea is to make persons who are unintelligent persecutor...
which they based on the building of a submarine vessel, expected to bring about the deliverance of ...
During the visits which Roland's secretary paid to the unfortunate Madame Descoings, he was struck ...
good news, and you both look like tombstones. The Duc de Berry is dead, is he?--well, so much the b...
attaching immense importance to simple matters; and they are often thought over-scrupulous. But the...
child." Terrible revelation of the inward thought of the poor woman on the conduct of her son. "M...
uttered a word of reproach. So Philippe and Joseph were cossetted, and the old gambler in the Imper...
No one has understood this opium of poverty. The lottery, all-powerful fairy of the poor, bestowed ...
"You ought," said Madame Descoings to Philippe during the last days of December, "you ought to get ...
A Prince of Bohemia Tillet, Ferdinand du Cesar Birotteau The Firm of Nucingen The Middle Classes...
The beginning of this passion was, as in the case of almost all deep thinkers, an idea. Looking at ...
The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac Tranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Mons...