with the Tuileries, and safe as a confessor, he sometimes knew everything and sometimes nothing; an...
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"But Monsieur Rabourdin isn't a minister," retorted Antoine; "it will be a hot day when that happen...
inventory. This indemnity amounted to the pretty little sum of twenty- five thousand francs. When t...
Billardiere, his nightmare, his detestation, whom he was nevertheless constantly wheedling so as th...
Amid these curious relics, Madame Saillard always sat on a sofa of modern mahogany, near a fireplac...
two clerks, by dint of quarrelling over the details of their lives, and washing much of their dirty...
ties, by the inflexibility of its customs, by one solitary emotion, that of avarice, a passion whic...
church, what the company's child is to the regiment, what the figurante is to a theatre; something ...
which he has really no competitor and no rival." "That is true." "Well, then," she resumed, smilin...
life still more sorrowful; for she now felt the suffering her uncle must have endured in witnessing...
Italian poet makes Angelica prefer Medoro, who was a blond Chevalier de Valois, to Orlando, whose m...
Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To the Comt...
Rabourdin. Was it not her husband's duty to give her a suitable position in the world? If she were ...
excellent sale, for the house had only cost him twenty-seven thousand francs. The believers were de...
Superior men could scarcely bring themselves to tread these tortuous ways, to stoop, to cringe, and...