"Poor Camille can hardly keep awake," the Vicomtesse hastily broke in. --"Go to bed, child; you hav...
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dinner came in from a cookshop; and our old porter's wife went up at the prescribed hour to set his...
from impending destitution. I resolved to strain the law at need to gain my ends, and this was what...
" ' "When can I see her?" " ' "At twelve o'clock." " ' "Is Madame la Comtesse ill?" " ' "No, sir,...
dying gesture, in the convulsive clutch of his claw-like hands. The pillow had been flung to the fl...
" 'There are ten of us in Paris, silent, unknown kings, the arbiters of your destinies. What is lif...
his coffees. There had been a dispute over each article, the first indication in Gobseck of the chi...
will give me your advice without charging fees as long as I live, will you not?' " 'So be it; so l...
concern of yours,' and he looked the old man up and down. 'A man has no debts till payment is due.'...
Gobseck by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage DEDICATION To M. le Baron Barchou de Pe...
left alone upon our deathbeds, and they are not with us then. They ought to pass a law for dying fa...
"Here, madame" he said in disgust, "let us square accounts. M. Goriot will not stay much longer in ...
humbled yesterday when I had not the twelve thousand francs, that I would have given the rest of my...
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men bedizened with decorations, stars, and ribbons, men who bore the most illustrious names in Fran...