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...The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes) by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...constitution which the least toil wearied. She was truly a daughter of the people of Paris, where children, seldom handsome, and of no vigor, the prod... ...ceably too small and ending in a point like the nose of a mouse, made some people fear she would become, sooner or later, imbecile. Her eyes, which we... ...lier reappeared, fol- lowed by her two servants; the key of the cellar was hanging from her belt, and three bottles of champagne, three of her- mitage... ...st gone. The extremely picturesque costume of the cen- tenarian pauper was hanging from a nail, and below it, on the floor, were the shapeless mat-wee... ... never seems a name at all.” “It is a Magyar, or to speak more commonly, a Hungarian name. Our own name, if we wanted to discuss it, might be said to ... ... the tuition world, where we have earned an honorable position; while this Hungarian countess, who makes, as they say, the 213 Balzac good and the ba... ... there- fore come to see me until the day after. By that time I shall have executed Brigitte, as they say at the Bourse, and have much to tell you. 2...

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