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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated ...

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Excerpt: A Woman of Thirty by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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...A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia Sta... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State ... ...e little service he had done her, or did she tell him, “After all, I shall really see you?” She bent her head quite graciously in re- sponse to the re... ...l of dark suspicions, that she found it difficult to lay a finger upon the real cause of the mischief. Possibly truth is only discoverable by chance. ... ...o his purely external qualifications, he was in favor and taken at his own valuation. At home, however, M. d’Aiglemont was modest. Instinc- tively he ... ...me immemorial, farmers and laborers had seen no gentry at the chateau. The estate, considerable though it was, had been left in charge of a land-stewa... ...f the great- 67 Balzac est gamblers on the face of the globe. Perhaps the estate would be cut up and sold in little lots. There would be some good st...

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...An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...d-point is at the en- trance of the park of Gondreville, one of the finest estates in 6 An Historical Mystery France, and by far the finest in the de... ...onged before the Revolution to the family of Simeuse. Ximeuse was a feudal estate in Lorraine; the name was pronounced Simeuse, and in course of time ... ...le for Marion to avoid delivering the property to the man who had been the real purchaser, and Michu did not seem likely to admit any such reason. Mor... ....” “The park strikes me as rather large; we might lose our way. If you are really the bailiff show us the path to the cha- teau,” said Corentin, in a ... ...ow made by the Messieurs de Simeuse that their purpose on that day was the valuation of the forest. Monsieur de Grandville here called attention to th...

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Excerpt: Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Pro and con monsieur de manerville, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The...

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Excerpt: Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ... so far away that not every one of us can picture it in its Gallo- Grecian reality. The stranger’s hat, for instance, tipped to the back of his head s... ...cares for yesterday’s flower in his buttonhole. And so it happens that the really great man is a Greuze, a Watteau, a Felicien David, a Pagnesi, a Ger... ...nt of a Chamber of the Court of Appeal in Paris, had taken the name of his estate at Marville to distinguish himself from his father and a younger hal... ...with the savings of twenty years, in the purchase of the splendid Marville estate; a chateau (as fine a relic of the past as you will find to- day in ... ...duce you to that lawyer, as he, no doubt, will come here. You shall make a valuation of M. Pons’ things at the prices which you can give for them, so ... ...ey, and that she would arrange for an interview in Pons’ rooms and for the valuation of the property; for the day after to-morrow at latest. “Deal fra...