another; and their souls in emulation seemed to stir and communicate the thoughts within them until...
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the love of a young man of twenty-three for an old maid of forty. And yet his passion was real; wha...
PARIS, January 183l. ADDENDUM The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy...
in the upper and more decent regions of gallantry. At an epoch when, as Monsieur de Valois said, Wo...
An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur...
calm and monotonously regular in this old edifice? It contained a library; but that was placed belo...
compliments, of which he was stingy, won the good graces of all the old women; he made himself agre...
questioned about him in certain houses when they carried home the linen, they always spoke respectf...
penury. A man ruined by the First Consul interested the town of Alencon, to which he now returned, ...
clumsily built staircase, with a rope by way of a hand-rail. At the door of the lodging in the atti...
"Pistols, yes," replied the grenadier. "But as for that horse-cloth, no! here's a poor fellow afoot...
"My God! to lose the woman I have saved a dozen times!" The major shook the countess. "Stephanie! ...
word a little oftener. Still, the grenadier knew how to amuse her and play with her; my hope was in...
balls. "Then you do not know," said the doctor, coldly, concealing his terror, "that in her sleep ...
Adieu by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Prince Frederi...