Is it decent that the Comtesse Bridau de Brambourg should die in a hospital, no matter what may hav...
2011-12-13
"I shall have ten millions two years from now," said Philippe Bridau. "It is now the 16th of Januar...
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan's Life The Firm of Nucingen A Man of ...
have fled the house where, in the room above her, Max's room, and in Max's bed, lay and suffered Ma...
At the end of a week Philippe had a new suit of clothes,--coat, waistcoat, and trousers,--of good b...
Unconsciously, her hands by a desperate movement had dishevelled the hair about her brow; and this ...
Vedie was sent to wait upon him, and found him in the morning with his eyes swollen and red with we...
have no right to-- Here, here is your money," she said to Madame Descoings, adding Joseph's three h...
finds you gone, he'll go beside himself, and want to follow you. Well! when he does, I'll give him ...
studio. She laid it all out on the table; not forgetting a flask of brandy, which, however, was onl...
then go and make inquiries from place to place. Let us know, by dessert, which road Mademoiselle Br...
endeavored to bring the Order into disrepute by bestowing its cross right and left, there were not ...
"With your permission," replied Philippe, squeezing her hand as if in a vice. "Come! we must have a...
my friends! I ask permission to propose the first toast." "He said MY FRIENDS, don't fill your glas...
Philippe was one of the faithful Bonapartes of the cafe Lemblin, that constitutional Boeotia; he ac...