refused all offers from Leger to renew the lease. For some time past, Monsieur de Serizy, wishing t...
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A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ernest Dowson "The whole show is dreadf...
de Reybert were displeasing to his superiors. My husband has watched your steward for the last thre...
This tranquil and formidable hostess snored in an attitude as graceful as that of a cat lying on a ...
can ever be excused, it might be on the score of his persistent kindness in succoring a woman of wh...
He devoted the greater part of his time to sleep, but he was obliged to watch like a spider in its ...
A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Laur...
Raising his head, his eyes met those of the sisters. With that charming feminine readiness which is...
the forehead, Sundays.'--'Are you afraid of him?'--'Ah, no, no; isn't he my godfather? he wouldn't ...
seldom." This thought dried the tears in his eyes as he gave his arm to his beautiful pupil, who f...
himself where you saw him, and since he has been there he has never said one word." The fisherman ...
"To do the thing well, a woman ought to fasten upon some good prey, a celebrity, a man of enough wi...
In this difficult extremity Raoul dropped Florine's arm, and though she caught his own and held it ...
A Second Home The Country Parson La Roche-Hugon, Martial de Domestic Peace The Peasantry The Me...
A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION ...