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

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Recruit by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Recruit by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Recruit by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Recruit by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...uld have sent for the doctor; but the doctor has been all day long playing chess with me. He told me, laughing, that in these days there was but one m... ...ood mayor not a little. The judge of the district court held firmly to the theory of a Chouan leader or a body of Vendeans hotly pursued. Others were ...

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...The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse... ...The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse de... ...e Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portab... ...definition. There are great houses in the Place Royale, the Faubourg Saint-Honore, and the Chaussee d’Antin, in any one of which you may breathe 21 B... ...s— they were both equally unversed in love lore. The lady’s knowl- edge of theory was but scanty; in practice she knew nothing 74 The Duchesse de Lan... ...ng. Montriveau had had but little experience, was absolutely ig- norant of theory, and felt too much to reflect at all. Both therefore were enduring t... ...t, conscientious scruples and pleasure, is an uncommonly amus- ing game of chess. And if a man knows the game, let him be never so little of a rake, h... ... and went. “So Ronquerolles was right,” thought he, “and now for a game of chess.” Thenceforward he hid his agitation by complete compo- sure. No man ...

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...rmeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...stand each other.” And she left the old fop to go and speak with Madame de Chessel, a countess from the provinces, who seemed about to take leave. “Th... ...equality, and intimate with du Bruel, he was a living proof of Rabourdin’s theory as to the steady deterioration of the ad- ministrative hierarchy in ... ...his patriotism struggled hard to suppress the fact—signal evidence for his theory— that in Horatio Nelson, “honor est a Nilo.” Ever since the accessio... ...e worry of it? I’ll amuse you every morning with an account of the game of chess I should play with the Grand Almoner,” said des Lupeaulx. “Very good,...

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...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Uni... ...d. “Perhaps you hope that it may mean marriages for me!” For sole reply he honored me with a meaning look. For some days he has amused himself with te... ...asure; but surely to take neces- sity as the spring of action is the moral theory of atheism? T o follow the impulse of love and feeling is the secret... ...s against us. But for these, we should have been able to bring their whole theory to nothing, whether by the force of love or of a secret, persistent ... ...francs. Your daughter weeps, but bows to the unquestioned authority of her honored parent. Some people are unkind enough to say that, behind her tears... ...e had to let them cut pictures out of my novels, build castles with books, chess- men, or mother-of-pearl counters, and give Nais my silks and wools t...

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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... ...sion of the social sys- tem. In these days we are so far removed from this theory of primitive people that almost all women, even those who do not des... ...bout two o’clock in the afternoon Malin and his friend Grevin were playing chess before the fire in the great salon on the ground-floor. Madame Grevin... ...nd was able to ap- ply them in this affair with terrible celerity, under a theory, now converted into a certainty, of the guilt of Michu and the Messi... ...their Emperor. If I fail—well, the memory of that man shall live eternally honored in our family. Present his petition for mercy so as to gain time; m...

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

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...eley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...y A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsyl-... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Univer- ... ...n who, being told to choose a reward from the king of Persia for inventing chess, asked for one ear of wheat for the first move on the board, the rewa... ...y, Mesmer’s so-called charlatanism, his tub, his conducting wires, and his theory. But let us at once admit that the German, unfortunately, compromise... ...ard to his hotel on which was written “To-morrow; nine o’clock, Rue Saint- Honore, opposite the Assumption.” Minoret, who seemed to have renewed his y... ...ur years the two antagonists met beneath a porte- cochere in the Rue Saint-Honore. Frenchmen have too many distractions of mind to hate each other lon...

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...Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...y shelves. An old card-table in mar- quetry, of which the upper part was a chess-board, stood in the space between the two windows. Above this table w... ...which rises and falls in prices. That is a deduction from Jeremy Bentham’s theory about usury. That writer has proved that the prejudice which condemn...

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...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ational Guard—what time have we, if you please, to go to work?” “Beautiful theory of a do-nothing!” cried Emile Blondet, laughing. “No, my dear fellow... ...e going to bed, only to find my young gentleman perfectly well and playing chess with one of the nurses. On leaving the school I found the rain had ce... ...t tale to Marie-Gaston.” “That,” I answered laughing, “is against your own theory of secrecy, in which a third party is one too many.” “Oh, Marie-Gast...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...ley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania Stat... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...verything it pleased her to read. She thus obtained a knowledge of life in theory, and had no innocence of mind, though virgin personally. Her intelle... ... distortion of an abnor- mal soul. Do not cold analysis and matter-of-fact theory point to passions in such a woman? Does she judge, and not feel? Or,... ...for to-night my plan will be made, and I shall have chosen the pawns on my chess- board to carry it out. In the days of her splendor Beatrix re- fused...

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

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...hor of a book entitled “The Causes of Moving Forces,” in which he gave the theory of the expansion and condensation of steam. He died in 1635. 5 Balz... ...ubject” and “liberty” were terms that contradicted each other; just as the theory of citizens being all equal constitutes an absurdity which nature co... ... will also serve to explain the importance of the Sieur Lecamus, a furrier honored with the custom of two queens, Catherine dé Medici and Mary Stuart,... ...was despotic in his own home; there he was an autocrat. Most respected and honored by his brother crafts- men, he owed to his long possession of the f... ...angely complicated those of politics,—making, as it were, a double game of chess, in which both parties had to watch the head and heart of their oppon...

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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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...A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Class... ...A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...blication A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...on A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...hich are utterly contrary to our principles. Instead of being a sophist in theory, you will be a sophist in prac- tice.” “Ah! I am afraid of that,” sa... ...dmirable debates in your own mind, Lucien, and take up a lofty position in theory, and end by blameworthy actions. You will never be at one with yours... ... the merits of Cosmoramas, views of Constantinople, marionettes, automatic chess-players, and performing dogs who would pick you out the prettiest wom...

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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 ... ...d health, but the Marquise herself put no faith in these auguries based on theory. Perhaps, like many a one for whom life has lost its sweetness, she ... ... me a second time, would not the world frown upon it? I owe my daughter an honored mother. Oh! I am condemned to live in an iron circle, from which th... ...ttract your notice. I owe you the more thanks because I have never been so honored before. At the same time, you are responsible for one of my faults,... ...e accurately, a first step towards an offence? You must either accept this theory with all its con- sequences, or absolve illicit passion. French soci... ...hat he had entered upon this flirtation with Moina as if it were a game of chess. But if Alfred de Vandenesse made her shudder with dis- gust, she was...