"M. de Montriveau's prophecy has shaken my nerves," she said. "It was a joke, but still I will see ...
2011-12-13
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,...
and self-examination found nothing but selfishness in all his thoughts and motives, in the answers ...
weariness flowed over his fevered cheeks; he was bowed down with fatigue upon fatigue, his throat s...
Paris cares to take what other women have passed over. The dread of being taken for a fool is the s...
"I have kept you waiting," she said, with the tone that a woman can always bring into her voice for...
the very foundations of her clear accurate language, and a language must always be the most infalli...
admiration, to talk of war with a soldier, wax enthusiastic with philanthropists over the good of t...
name he bore, the elder branch would have been as securely seated on the throne as the House of Han...
grew less unkind. Her words were sweet and soothing. They were lovers--lovers only could have been ...
a coquette, and above all things a Parisienne, loving a brilliant life and gaiety, reflecting never...
neighbour; and, in a word, the interests of all honest people personified. There, my friend, just b...
she did not even go so far as to form a wish. One evening she chanced to be at the house of an inti...
Russian advance if we meant to draw off during the night. Again and again we charged, and for three...