complimenting the dress as if it were a book he had published the day before. "Yes," said Raoul, i...
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mingle in conversations. Intelligent ideas and delicate observations put into her mind by her inter...
Raoul; as it was, it became so irksome that many men, even those of the strongest constitutions, co...
In short, the terrible Raoul is grotesque. His movements are jerky, as if produced by imperfect mac...
"And unmakes ministries," added Madame de Manerville. The countess was silent; she wanted to answer...
the midst of which were flaming portraits drawn in lines of fire) to notice the naive admiration of...
praise. Madame de Vandenesse, feeling this change in public opinion, was desirous of knowing if her...
the embers to see if a spark were yet alive, Madame Felix de Vandenesse was undergoing those violen...
corner of a garret on an earthenware stove, to that which convokes the tribes of pot-bellied chefs ...
beneath the malicious despotism of a self-made man on leaving the maternal prison. Angelique, whose...
the affair. My interests demand that the man shall go to prison. Remember my orders." Madame du Ti...
an hour, while a delicious smell of roast poultry pervaded the whole house. At last, however, a kno...
October 10. Yet another. I was walking by the river, after breakfast. And I saw, under a willow, a ...
La Blanchotte's son appeared in his turn upon the threshold of the school. He was seven or eight y...
her father's shoulder, and jumped lightly down. The youth with the yellow hair had got down by step...