men bedizened with decorations, stars, and ribbons, men who bore the most illustrious names in Fran...
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Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and others DEDICATION To Madame la Pr...
turned his dull eyes upon Eugene, looked at him attentively, and did not recognize him. It was more...
manufacturer, there M. Fritot is first; but as a salesman. He discovered the 'Selim shawl,' AN ABSO...
to a proper close. If you but knew how much they made of me just after they were married. (Oh! this...
Gobseck by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage DEDICATION To M. le Baron Barchou de Pe...
left alone upon our deathbeds, and they are not with us then. They ought to pass a law for dying fa...
so only just now. We were talking about you, and she insisted that you were beautiful, and that she...
"There's a sell for you, master crusher," the convict added, looking at the famous director of poli...
He wanted to be back at the Maison Vauquer. Father Goriot had left his room, and was just sitting d...
"Gentlemen, this is not manners! If you turn people out of the house, it ought not to be done so un...
possession, but I cannot accept it from you, and I am too poor as yet to----" "Ah! ah! you say me ...
"There is some mistake," said Sylvie. "Why, no there isn't! he said so himself!" said Mme. Vauquer....
to me, and I have helped her so often, and always had money for her when she had none.--But never m...
But it was the joke about the Venus of Pere-Lachaise that finally decided his fate. Mlle. Michonnea...