"Come, uncle, if it were only to enable you to get at the truth of this business, grant my request....
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The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Father Goriot Ursule Mir...
cleanliness of the banisters, walls, and carpets, and counted the footmen in livery who, as the bel...
The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell DEDICATION Dedicated to Mo...
looked for in the man who was to be my husband. M. d'Espard was then six-and-twenty; he was a gentl...
struggling with the tempests on the surface, till I sink and go to ask you for a corner in your gro...
condemn or legitimatize the act. A judge is not God; the duty is to adapt facts to principles, to j...
composure when they scented opposition on the part of the examining magistrate. When her husband un...
the arrival of the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse upon the scene, the return of the public prosecutor, an...
Chesnel and Mme. du Croisier, sounded sweet in his ears. Mme. du Croisier shared Chesnel's views of...
arrogance and humility they demand of the people more submission than kings expect, and fret their ...
seat on the bench to his son Joseph, and the whole town knew what he meant to do. He had made a wil...
will go to his niece, Mlle. Duval. M. Duval is an ironmaster, his purse is tolerably filled, to beg...
anger. "Oh!" After that sublime, "Oh!" Diane bowed her head on her hand and sat, still, cold, and...
shown in the light of a boy's thoughtless escapade. But Chesnel slept neither soundly nor for long....