phrases, du Croisier groveled before him, like a Sganarelle before a Geronte, begging the young Cou...
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at that turning-point in his life when a man most stands in need of the harsh discipline of misfort...
about the buildings. Wild plants sometimes find a hold in the damp niches, and weave a crown of bea...
He read no newspapers but the Quotidienne and the Gazette de France, two journals accused by the Co...
d'Esgrignon, had even taken out his pistols, had gone so far as to think of suicide. He who would n...
(if I had one) is involved--it is the Marquis d'Esgrignon's only son. I have had the honor to be th...
misfortune, he fell in with a set of roues, with de Marsay, de Ronquerolles, Maxime de Trailles, de...
punishing us by keeping his word to the infanta? I should be pitiable indeed if I did not know her-...
Vandenesse, the Vicomtesse de Grandlieu, Canalis, and Mme. de Serizy. "D'Esgrignon and Maufrigneuse...
an interest in their house. Well, but so far as I know, Longueville has but one son of two-and-thir...
tenderness as she had ever felt for him before. "Yes, monsieur, in my country true love can make ev...
The Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage DEDICATION To Bar...
commonalty, her feeling was not carried so far as to scorn the advantages of a fortune acquired in ...
sometime forage-contractor. Du Croisier, on the other hand, was a man to bear a grudge and nurse a ...
said the old sailor to himself as he put his horse to a canter; "or perhaps young people are not wh...