rental of about fifteen thousand francs a year. Louis XVIII. gave the post of grand equerry to the ...
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this morning examining the exterior as I was on my way to Sainte- Adresse." "Oh, an architect, was...
receive so great a fame in our little house, yet your visit will gratify my daughter, whose admirat...
Modeste's duplicity and Butscha's connivance. "Madame," he cried, "he is a serpent whom we have war...
the follies which are you able to make a poet commit. If so, you have done a bad deed. Your two let...
This letter fell like a cobble-stone on a tulip. A poet, secretary of claims, getting a stipend in ...
not be shared. For every hundred readers, eighty might weary of the battle. The respect due to the ...
and had learned a good deal of life during his four years in a minister's cabinet. Kindly, amiable,...
his loss and also the terrible results on your mother's health and eyesight; prepare him for the sh...
make; he is full of vanity, full of angles that will sharply wound a woman's proper pride, and kill...
"My son," she said, "you are so surrounded by true affection that I never thought how my thoughtles...
me; I would not have you other than you are in this letter, the first--oh, may it not be the last! ...
your charity, what next? what do you expect? I have neither the genius nor the splendid position of...
satiety cast her, saturated as she still was with Catholic spirituality, into the love of Good, the...
importance than mere social laws; and his present conduct proceeded from one of those compacts whic...