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...Excerpt: Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hier...

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...lara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publicati... ...the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...urniture showed the respectable cleanliness which reveals strict order and economy. The most waggish of the three youths often amused himself by writi... ...s- band, accustomed by her to carry two large prayer-books, bound in black morocco. The second apprentice received no salary. As for the eldest, whose... ...nding, his hand resting on the greasy arm of a large cane chair lined with morocco, of which the original hue had disappeared; he seemed to hesitate a... ...undoubted value, that the simplest room in the house looked like a chapel. Economy and expense seemed to be struggling for the upper hand in every acc...

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...Excerpt: The commercial traveler, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some conceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of materi...

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...by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t him well. Don’t forget his overcoat, olive green, nor his cloak with its morocco collar, nor the striped blue cotton shirt. In this queer figure—so ... ...c brat tear the gown; the gown costs thirty francs, the sub- scription six—economy; result, subscription. It is an excel- lent thing, meets an actual ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

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...y by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...sand francs, put together sou by sou, were the fruit therefore of a sordid economy unintelligently employed. In fact, the Saillards did not know how b... ... wardrobes, mahogany tables, sofas and armchairs covered with red or green morocco, silk curtains, and other articles of administrative luxury. The cl... ...Feeling himself in duty bound to offer a copy of each volume, bound in red morocco, to Mon- sieur Rabourdin, he always came in full dress to present t... ... thousand, they married without settlements, and started with the ut- most economy. They went to live, like dove-turtles, near the barriere de Courcel... ...which went further and lasted longer than most French fashions. The actual economy of mousseline de laine, which needs no washing, has since injured t... ...re here in your day. Messieurs Colleville and Baudoyer didn’t wear out the morocco of the chairs after you left. Heavens, no! six months later they we...

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...Excerpt: To Maria, may your name, that of one whose portrait is the noblest ornament of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless t...

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...t by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s, an old abbey, whose windows and arches he had walled up for the sake of economy,—a measure which preserved them,—also a hundred and twenty-seven ac... ... in an annuity with Maitre Cruchot. This result of her long and persistent economy seemed gigantic. Every servant in the town, seeing that the poor se... ...s would injure that kind of leather. T ell him you don’t know how to black morocco; yes, that’s mo- rocco. He will get you something himself in Saumur... ..., he had been inoculated with selfishness. The germs of Parisian political economy , latent in his heart, would assur- edly burst forth, sooner or lat... ...Good God! you’ve given our fortune to that ne’er-do- well,—that dandy with morocco boots! By the shears of my father! I can’t disinherit you, but I cu... ...to give him? You’ll find out some day what your Charles is worth, with his morocco boots and supercilious airs. He has got neither heart nor soul if h...

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...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, an...

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...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a... ...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...:— 6 The Brotherhood of Consolation The son of a retail shopkeeper, whose economy enabled him to lay by a sort of fortune, he was the sole object of ... ... a notary’s practice for their son. Subjected to the rule of this domestic economy, Godefroid found his immediate state so disproportioned to the visi... ...e closed the volume; but even then he saw, in letters of gold on the green morocco cover, the words:— Seek That Which Is Eternal, and That Only. “Have... ... had never borrowed money from him, I owed him pleasures which my father’s economy denied me. Without my generous comrade I should never had seen the ... ...ns. A desk chair of Roman shape, made in ma- hogany and covered with green morocco, was the doctor’s own seat. Between the fireplace and the long tabl...

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...ics Series Publication The Professor by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ur. “Being left to myself, I took the stuffed easy chair, covered with red morocco, which stood by the fireside, and while my eyes watched the flames ... ...nt of shaking hands, scanned me from head to foot; he took his seat in the morocco covered arm-chair, and motioned me to another sent. “‘I expected yo... ...to ask pecuni- ary assistance, I had early acquired habits of self-denying economy; husbanding my monthly allowance with anxious care, in order to obv... ...ler, Zschokke, Jean Paul Richter; in English there were works on Political Economy. I examined no further, for Mr. Hunsden himself recalled my attenti... ...ls, for instance, for five or six pounds, if you know how to man- age with economy.” “Necessity would teach me if I didn’t.” “Go, then, and let your w...

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...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ..., and obtained customers by honorable proceedings. In Paris they used, for economy’s sake, the same yard, hotel, and stable, the same coach-house, off... ... he allow him- self to spend an evening at a cafe. In spite of the prudent economy to which his small means forced him, Clapart would not have answere... ...ressed, and she gave him a gold watch, the price of which she had saved by economy, as the reward of his good conduct. “You draw for the conscription ... ... cloth, and furnished with blinds of a Moorish pattern and cushions of red morocco, the “Swallow of the Oise” could carry, com- fortably, nineteen pas...

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...Excerpt: IN 1828, at about one o?clock one morning, two persons came out of a large house in the Rue du Faubourg Saint- Honore, near the Elysee-Bourbon. One was the famous doctor, Horace Bianchon; the other was one of the most elegant men in Paris, the Baron de Rastignac; they were friends of long...

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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...Sines and Tangents, Codification, and Treatises of what you call Political Economy, are the Meal? And what is that Science, which the scientific head ... ...suit of Russia Leather; and the high-born Belle step forth in red or azure morocco, lined with shamoy: the black cowhide being left to the Drudges and... ... fruit: that it takes scientific rank beside Codifica- tion, and Political Economy, and the Theory of the British Constitution; nay rather, from its p...

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...ERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... many days for the others. If you come down to Tours from Paris, your best economy is to spend a few days at Blois, where a clumsy, but rather attract... ...s you to regard as the highest attain- able form of accommodation. Such an economy I was unable to practise. I could only go to Blois (from Tours) to ... ...solutely new and extremely sumptuous, abounding in tapestries, upholstery, morocco, velvet, satin. This is especially the case with a really beautiful...

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...Excerpt: We all settled down in a circle and our good friend Alexandr Vassilyevitch Ridel (his surname was German but he was Russian to the marrow of his bones) began as follows: I am going to tell you a story, friends, of something that happened to me in the ?thirties ... forty years ago as you see. I will be brief--and don?t you interrupt me....

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