a coquette, and above all things a Parisienne, loving a brilliant life and gaiety, reflecting never...
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neighbour; and, in a word, the interests of all honest people personified. There, my friend, just b...
"But these troubles of mine, Captain Bluteau----" "Do not call me Captain Bluteau," cried Genestas,...
woman loved to frenzy; a woman so carefully hidden from the world's eyes, so deeply buried in the b...
Russian advance if we meant to draw off during the night. Again and again we charged, and for three...
head. He had leant his face on his hands, unable at first to bear the intolerable emotion that surg...
well-dressed Parisian woman, against whose glances he felt that he was not proof. The soldier turne...
The General bowed his head to regain self-control; when he looked up again he saw her face beyond t...
along the beach he turned and saw me on duty ten paces from him. " 'Well, Genestas,' he said, as he...
urgently needed. He said to me, 'I shall have to go, though I never care to set out on horseback wh...
"Well, like every one else in the canton, colonel, I feel sorrow for his loss, but no one knows as ...
The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS I In a Spanish city on an i...
strength is yet further increased by the undaunted courage of youthful convictions. "Childhood in ...
by slow degrees I became politely civil; and one day, by a sort of tacit agreement between us, she ...
natural in manner, as in word and deed. His natural aptitude had made his other studies easy to him...