life still more sorrowful; for she now felt the suffering her uncle must have endured in witnessing...
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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 ...
period of life when a man has judged men and social interests and relations,--the opinions for whic...
Bousquier; but pray explain to me why a woman is depraved because she prefers one man to another." ...
Presently, in spite of a driving rain, Mademoiselle Cormon drove away from Prebaudet, leaving her f...
have seemed so. An aquiline nose contrasted curiously with the narrowness of her forehead; for it i...
handsome things she had admired from her youth up she suddenly suspected of age and absurdity. In s...
observation, in days when religion is nothing more than a useful means to some, and a poesy to othe...
the little attentions with which he was petted; you might have thought him a cherished lover, whose...
always came into such hands we shouldn't see a beggar in the country." Another said: "Dear me, I sh...
fainting upon that bed, you were enchanting. I have never in my life seen a more beautiful person,-...
"THEY are all in the garden." No doubt the assembled stomachs were impatient; for on the appearance...
the love of a young man of twenty-three for an old maid of forty. And yet his passion was real; wha...