attaching immense importance to simple matters; and they are often thought over-scrupulous. But the...
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child." Terrible revelation of the inward thought of the poor woman on the conduct of her son. "M...
uttered a word of reproach. So Philippe and Joseph were cossetted, and the old gambler in the Imper...
No one has understood this opium of poverty. The lottery, all-powerful fairy of the poor, bestowed ...
"You ought," said Madame Descoings to Philippe during the last days of December, "you ought to get ...
Philippe was one of the faithful Bonapartes of the cafe Lemblin, that constitutional Boeotia; he ac...
himself persecuted; and the effect of that idea is to make persons who are unintelligent persecutor...
which they based on the building of a submarine vessel, expected to bring about the deliverance of ...
During the visits which Roland's secretary paid to the unfortunate Madame Descoings, he was struck ...
and daughter placed as we then were. But I braved them all, my mother, my husband, the world, by pu...
during the first half-hour of this visit. Diane d'Uxelles cautiously avoided, as she would the wear...
beard, whom I have often seen at the opera, and who was leading the attack, threw up the man's gun,...
bear extreme felicity. "Daniel, they have calumniated me, and you have avenged me!" she cried, ris...
d'Arthez. Our man of genius is by nature, it seems, a savage; he fears women, and has never loved! ...
A Prince of Bohemia Tillet, Ferdinand du Cesar Birotteau The Firm of Nucingen The Middle Classes...