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Gambara

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ing A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn-... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn- sy... ...a by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Uni- ... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Uni- ver... ... genius, Ottoboni takes no end of pains to educate Italy; he writes little books to enlighten the intelligence of the children and the common people, ... ... of the four cymbals (tuned to C, D, C, G)! How elegant is the call to the lists! The whole move- ment of the heroic life of the period is there: the ... ... muslin, would take her husband to the grocer’s shop in the Faubourg Saint-Honore and give him two or three thimble- fuls of brandy to make him tipsy;...

...Excerpt: It was sitting by the fire, in a mysterious and magnificent retreat,--now a thing of the past but surviving in our memory,--whence our eyes commanded a view of Paris from the heights of Belleville to those of Belleville, from Montmartre to the triumphal Arc de l?Etoile, that one morning, refreshed by tea, ...

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