and had learned a good deal of life during his four years in a minister's cabinet. Kindly, amiable,...
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his loss and also the terrible results on your mother's health and eyesight; prepare him for the sh...
baffled hope that gleamed in Melmoth's eyes; he, too, knew the thirst that burned those red lips, a...
Dumay sent agents to represent his master in New York, Paris, and London, and followed up the assig...
mingled with the excited eagerness of hope, and, beneath it all, a gnawing sense of loathing for al...
Did you ever hear the like? Then, after Napoleon's campaigns, the lines are full of sonorous brass ...
of a practitioner well known on the walls of Paris, and succumbed to the effects of an overdose of ...
classes delight, well-made, well-fleshed, and with a fine complexion, abandoned his betrothed so ha...
Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To a Pol...
dwelling more in keeping with the splendor of his own abode, and he reconstructed it on the model o...
importance than mere social laws; and his present conduct proceeded from one of those compacts whic...
mechanic distrusts the machine which the traveller admires; and the officers of the army might be c...
Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage To Monsieur le General Baron ...
coloring of the long oval face, indicated quite as plainly as the cut of his clothes that the man w...
wolf, and a sheep shall not make a fool of me. Castanier, old man, before you set up housekeeping, ...