circumstance that enabled them to hide the dolorous spectacle of the funeral from the sorrowing Bar...
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enameled like a meadow, sent up a soft murmur through the quiet night. Then the great doors of the ...
The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac Translated by James Waring TO MADAME ZULMA CARRAUD To w...
lying in bed till noon because a crisis never finds him asleep." "So far so good, but just get to h...
round genius. The elephant of finance would contract to deliver votes on a division, or the Greeks ...
poodle, his faithful companion, might have the bones. Bartolommeo never complained of the noise. If...
milord spoke to him, and his noble master might, perhaps, have pardoned that breach of the law dome...
decking the room and the couch on which the dead man lay. At a sign from Don Juan all his people st...
voluptuous decorous dance? Such a girl does not knock audaciously at your heart, like the dark-hair...
true; but, for my own part, I do not blame you. You are two centuries behind the times with your fa...
there is no merit in yielding oneself to bliss that is foreseen and ardently desired. Alas, my frie...
gave you my heart; that was not enough; you demanded, brutally, that I should give my person----" ...
"M. de Montriveau's prophecy has shaken my nerves," she said. "It was a joke, but still I will see ...
The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring TO THE READER A...
whenever the bell rang; to estimate the drain of life when a carriage rolled past without stopping,...