of a practitioner well known on the walls of Paris, and succumbed to the effects of an overdose of ...
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classes delight, well-made, well-fleshed, and with a fine complexion, abandoned his betrothed so ha...
Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To a Pol...
dwelling more in keeping with the splendor of his own abode, and he reconstructed it on the model o...
importance than mere social laws; and his present conduct proceeded from one of those compacts whic...
mechanic distrusts the machine which the traveller admires; and the officers of the army might be c...
baffled hope that gleamed in Melmoth's eyes; he, too, knew the thirst that burned those red lips, a...
Dumay sent agents to represent his master in New York, Paris, and London, and followed up the assig...
mingled with the excited eagerness of hope, and, beneath it all, a gnawing sense of loathing for al...
coloring of the long oval face, indicated quite as plainly as the cut of his clothes that the man w...
wolf, and a sheep shall not make a fool of me. Castanier, old man, before you set up housekeeping, ...
husband's stockings; get back to your needles." Though such speeches showed that the grand provost ...
When at length it was evidently impossible to borrow any longer, whether because the amount of the ...
XI. made a sign. Marie appeared, followed by her old husband, who allowed her to pass in first. "G...
that of nightmare, and he could not move a limb. Nay, the man himself was the nightmare; his presen...