period of life when a man has judged men and social interests and relations,--the opinions for whic...
2011-12-12
Bousquier; but pray explain to me why a woman is depraved because she prefers one man to another." ...
calm and monotonously regular in this old edifice? It contained a library; but that was placed belo...
compliments, of which he was stingy, won the good graces of all the old women; he made himself agre...
questioned about him in certain houses when they carried home the linen, they always spoke respectf...
penury. A man ruined by the First Consul interested the town of Alencon, to which he now returned, ...
assume the leadership of the liberal party in Alencon. After such a marriage he would, of course, r...
another; and their souls in emulation seemed to stir and communicate the thoughts within them until...
the love of a young man of twenty-three for an old maid of forty. And yet his passion was real; wha...
PARIS, January 183l. ADDENDUM The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy...
in the upper and more decent regions of gallantry. At an epoch when, as Monsieur de Valois said, Wo...
An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur...
balls. "Then you do not know," said the doctor, coldly, concealing his terror, "that in her sleep ...
Adieu by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Prince Frederi...
society talked in various ways over this extraordinary event, and each person looked for the cause ...