"He is right," said Eve; "you yourself were saying, were you not, that he ought to go to Paris at o...
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him, and tried, by jesting, to obtain admission for Luigi; but her father, also jesting, refused. S...
Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION T...
ties of love which bound them to each other, they each tried to break them, but without success. No...
now a procession defiling before you, one after the other, of men of talent, little and great, arti...
from the quarrel. On Ginevra's arrival she was received, as we have said, in profound silence. Of ...
virtuous Gazonal. "It is amusing! People may cry up the pleasures of hunting and fishing as much a...
These two sentences are the simplest expression of the many ideas that Ginevra turned over in her m...
much for her. She looked at the officer with a respectful emotion which shook his heart. For the fi...
opinions of this man whom his daughter had singled out for notice. Lucien's extreme beauty made suc...
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Bargeton's, he must not be my foreman any longer, poor fellow! He ought not to live in L'Houmeau; y...
the pages, though yellow and faded, would still be legible, the work would not be destroyed. "Ther...
"Who may she be? What kind of victual does she eat?" "She is the daughter of the late M. Chardon, t...
ci-devant young man, slim still at five-and-forty, with a countenance like a sieve. His cravat was ...
irrationally, anything becomes them, and it is who shall be first to justify their conduct; then, o...