expressed a haughty pride in keeping with her hand, her chin, her brows, and her beautiful figure. ...
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"But," she added, to herself, "if the negotiation does not succeed at once, I shall leave Bordeaux....
"This sort of joke has been perpetrated before, sir, in garrison towns at the time of the Empire; b...
underwent the chemical process of preparation so clearly described by Pallas, to which the peculiar...
Oftentimes at sunrise or at sunset a ray of bright sunlight would penetrate between two sheer surfa...
little tube; the water thus compelled to flow downwards would rise in the reservoir, represented by...
"No better and no worse," she said. "He coughed all last night again fit to kill himself. Poor gent...
movement. "We cannot deny the fact," the chemist replied. "Pshaw! those gentlemen the doctrinaires...
"To sleep; for so one keeps alive, at any rate," the patient answered. "Let no one come in, not eve...
three years over an extensive work, with which perhaps you may some day occupy yourselves," Raphael...
face; she hovered above the slopes of the hills and their little hamlets, and seemed to bar the pas...
carefully prescribed rule of diet, so as to soothe the internal irritation"--here Brisset signified...
money would have paid for. I deceived you all round--over firing, oil, and even money. O Raphael mi...
"Look at all great men; nature made them pleasure-loving or base, every one. Some mocking or jealou...
laughter rang out like the song of a bird, one peal leading to another. "I am quite jealous of the...