when we sign the contract, just as the government flings a fete to the people in the great square o...
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aside such serious attacks. Are you not deceived in him? However, I will obey you; I will make him ...
"Madame, I did not, it is true, calculate the effect of the deeds of gift. But if you do not wish C...
becomes a diplomatist, a coward is suddenly brave. Hate made this prodigal woman a miser. Chance an...
it is a condition of all species of power. You cannot diversify happiness by the cares of property ...
I know the world, and men, and things; I have seen the peace of many a home destroyed by the blind ...
"Well," said Achilles to Nestor, as the cabriolet rolled away, "you have been truly patriarchal to-...
expressed a haughty pride in keeping with her hand, her chin, her brows, and her beautiful figure. ...
"But," she added, to herself, "if the negotiation does not succeed at once, I shall leave Bordeaux....
their clients, often barring the way to extravagance and dissipation, --men to whom families confid...
The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION T...
the girl, whose beauty was enhanced by the blush which the pleasure of this answer brought to her f...
social academician. It's pitiable! The old bachelor whose property the heirs are waiting for, who f...
his client from concessions. "We are concerned now with the interests and welfare of three generati...
mind, always, so to speak, in half-tints, was better appreciated than in Paris. The arrangement of...