faces, as in those of the Countess and his friend Martial, the secrets of their agitation; and then...
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they even count the sticks of wood." "Well, it can't last long if they go on that way." "Hush, we'...
impotence more keenly. At last the Baron had found a seat by Madame de Soulanges. His eyes stole a...
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ensconced yourself." "Oh, my dear, good Leon," said she in a coaxing tone, "I could not resist the...
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temperature!" cried the Colonel, a little nettled at so soon finding a rival in his friend. "What!...
invariably attaches to a discarded lover. The lawyer proudly raised his head and looked at the stra...
he read with amazement and stupefaction a deed of purchase which seemed wafted to him from the clou...
paltry salary as mine any longer; I shall deprive the government of my co-operation." [Departs amid...
and the great world do not restrain them. You would hardly believe, however, how the injudicious co...
so doing you'll play the game of all the big people, and help the minister, the court, the clergy,-...
ministries; their accounts to be kept in future at the Treasury. Saillard is rich and does not need...
coachman. "Hi, Jean!" he called out to him; "Monseigneur has gone with the minister of war; they a...