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... equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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...The Alkahest by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...c Classics Series Publication The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a publication of the Pennsy... ...lassics Series Publication The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...onic transmission, in any way. The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...escribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (... ...f the nineteenth century, after vicissi- tudes which are of no interest to our present purpose, the family of Claes was represented at Douai in the pe... ...t their wives in Bruges or Ghent, in Liege or in Holland; so that the time-honored domestic customs 9 Balzac might be perpetuated around their hearth... ...ned color which age had given to the bricks, it was as well preserved as a choice old picture, or some rare book cherished by an amateur, which would ... ...t did not serve the purposes of true comfort, supplying her table with the choicest food, and 29 Balzac putting everything within those walls into ha...

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words qu...

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...The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Human Co... ...The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Human Comed... ...s Series Publication The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Por... ...eries Publication The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portab... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents HONORE DE BALZAC ............................................................. ... & Appendix The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac HONORE DE BALZAC “Sans genie, je suis flambe!” VOLUMES, almost libraries, h... ...for him there is no such door of escape and no such compromise. He had the choice, by his nature, his aims, his capacities, of being a genius or nothi... ...France et l’Etranger in 1836, are two considerable series of letters from “Our Own Corre- spondent,” handling the affairs of the world with boldness a... ...: Introductions & Appendix of this system, which is indeed in harmony with our precon- ceived ideas of Divine Power, will be the eternal glory of Geof...

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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- ... ... being called to the Bar. Monsieur and Madame Minoret- Levrault—for behind our colossus every one will perceive a woman without whom this signal good-... ...postilion, interrupting his mas- ter. “Hay! you must have heard us, didn’t our whips tell you? we felt you were somewhere along the road.” Just then a... ...self alone his motions, stiffened by a slowness which was more a matter of choice than the result of old age, betrayed the constant presence of distre... ...the gentle pleasures of which were the more enjoyed. This little circle of choice spirits closed round Ursula, a child whom each adopted according to ... ...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...

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...wer and feudal times, stood one of the most ter- 5 Balzac rible sieges of our religious wars, when French Calvinists far outdid the ferocious Cameron... ...ace Bianchon, and to an author of secondary rank, Etienne Lousteau, one of our most successful journalists. The dis- trict included under the municipa... ...to promise him, he hoped to earn the reward of his sober life. And yet his choice showed such a lack of prudence in regard to his frail consti- tution... ... scrape. The country gentleman, lodging at the Hotel de Mayence, Rue Saint-Honore, near the Place Vendome, one morning received a visit from a confide... ...mitted a finan- cial blunder, had, in fact, done very good business in the choice of a wife. Thanks to sordid economy and an indemnity paid him for th...

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...ll A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- ... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...at the moment when the per- fumed air brings fragrance to the lungs and to our day-dreams; when voluptuousness, made visible and ambient as the air, h... ...alian caresses. Il Signor Pedrotti had indeed no reason to complain of the choice to which he was driven by his beloved child. Powerful protectors in ... ... as cold as tombstones, and wide enough for eight persons to walk abreast, our tread echoed under sonorous vaulting. The banister charmed the eye by i... ...l. He was a sort of catholic Manfred, and unstained by crime, carrying his choiceness into his faith, melting the snows by the fires of a sealed volca... ...I bought and paid for one of the handsom- est houses in the Faubourg Saint-Honore. If I win back Honorine, I will not allow her to see this house agai...

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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... ...man. Farther on are doors studded with enormous nails, where the genius of our forefathers has traced domestic hieroglyphics, of which the meaning is ... ...or warehouses; lovers of the Middle Ages will here find the /ouvrouere/ of our forefathers in all its naive simplic- ity. These low rooms, which have ... ... ance of the health which you now enjoy?” He offered her a huge bouquet of choice flowers which were rare in Saumur; then, taking the heiress by the e...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...- mance was to exercise a great influence in the principal per- sonages of our history, was a work-girl at Madame Lardot’s. One word here on the topog... ...or chevalier could no longer ruin himself for a mis- tress. Instead of the choicest bonbons wrapped in bank-bills, he gallantly presented paper-bags f... ...ent; she’ll wring her nerves; good-bye to all the good little pleasures of our time, desired without shame, ac- cepted without nonsense.” (He polished... ...nsieur de Valois had, during the last six months, given the key to several choice stratagems prac- tised upon an old republican named Hulot, the comma... ...et. Parisian customs, said the community , were about to triumph over time-honored provincial ways. The marriage of Jacquelin and Josette now took pla...

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

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

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...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Great Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta....

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...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, amid the myriad suggestions t...

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...r diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....

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...Excerpt: When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher?s name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would make upon his hardy experiment....

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

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Excerpt: The Two Brothers 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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...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...onic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...c Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...aving dreamed of Paris under the shadow of the Duomo, of having longed for our muddy streets on the clean and elegant flagstones of Porta-Renza. When ... ...o not wish to be watched by them—two situa- tions equally ridiculous. Now, our young man was followed, though he knew it not, by a man in a mask, dogg... ...ull of contrasts. On coming from the well-lighted regions of the Rue Saint-Honore, the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, and 20 Scenes from a Courtesan’s ... ...e of the grand monarque on the pattern of those at V ersailles, where that choicest circle met, that cream of Paris society, called then le petit chat... ... seventy. Oh, why did I get into a habit of dining at V ery’s, of drinking choice wines, of singing La Mere Godichon, of gambling when I am in funds? ...

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...Excerpt: The Rue Du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall now pulled down. Here stood the turnstile to which the street owed its name; it was not r...

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...A Second Home by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Second Home by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Second Home by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Second Home by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Second Home by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tron... ...moved to the Marais.—Why!” she exclaimed, after glancing down the street, “our gentleman of the brown coat has taken to 8 A Second Home wearing a wig... ...my poor mother no longer compelled to go out, whatever the weather, to buy our little provisions, at her age. I should like her to have a servant who,... ...to church, to confession as often as she pleased, and never to control her choice of priestly advisers. At this criti- cal moment Angelique looked at ... ... Rue du Temple and the Rue Nueve Saint-Francois. Her chief reason for this choice was that the house was close to the Rue d’Orleans, where there was a...

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...The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ic Classics Series Publication The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...man would fain be something in the State. Ambition of that sort carries on our thought to the second Parisian sphere. Go up one story, then, and desce... ...elegant, gracious, and embellished with all the virginal charms with which our imagination pleases to adorn the perfect woman. If this hurried glance ... ... In addi- tion, the good-natured prelate had procured for the child of his choice certain acquaintances in the best Parisian society, which might equa...

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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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...The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...ate Electronic Classic Series Publication The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of the Pen... ... Electronic Classic Series Publication The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of the Pennsy... ...ere the edicts that we put forth in Paris; you can be the correspondent of our stupidities. V ery good. Play the rake in the provinces; better still, ... ...e? Marriage, my old Paul, is the silliest of all the social im- molations; our children alone profit by it, and don’t know its price until their horse... ... come to certain naturally fine spirits like a second nature; assimilating choice things wherever they are met. If her reputation for virtue was unex-... ...the harmony of their feelings, the agreement of their ideas, or the mutual choice and enjoyment of their pleasures. “Poor little darling!” said the mo...

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...liant display of shops as rich as the salons of the noblesse before 1789; the splendors of cafes which eclipse, and easily eclipse, the Versailles of our day; the shop-window illusions, new every morning, nightly destroyed; the grace and elegance of the young men that come in contact with fair customers; the piquant faces and costumes of young damsels, who cannot fail to a...

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...Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and others A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...hers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Penn... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sit... ...e splendors of cafes which eclipse, and easily eclipse, the V ersailles of our day; the shop-window illusions, new every morning, nightly destroyed; t... ...ty, a faculty developed ever since the days of the Roman Empire, until, in our own times, thanks to the ef- forts of the most fastidious civilization ... ...th three bracelets of marvelous workmanship. The great ladies hesi- tated. Choice is a mental lightning flash; hesitate—there is no more to be said, y... ...ir minds to be guided by circum- stances at the time, and not by their own choice. I saw the kind of woman at once, tired of her husband, tired of her...

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...The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State El... ...The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...onic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...c Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... friend, that God Himself is speaking to us when a good thought comes into our hearts.” This last remark made the dreamer at the parapet quiver. The m... ...soil,” his comrade had said to him; “it makes us a return in proportion to our efforts.” Godefroid was in debt. As a first test, a first task, he re- ... ...NEXT DAY, as Godefroid rose amid the appointments of modern luxury and the choice appliances of English “com- fort,” he remembered the details of his ... ...iend who offers you all feminine refinements, who displays the graces, the choice attractions which nature inspires in a woman for man; she gives them...

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...Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...inging her to the window, and pointing to the mysterious shed, “there lies our fortune. For some months yet we must endure our lot, but let us bear it... ...r it patiently; leave me to solve the problem of which I told you, and all our troubles will be at an end.” David was so good, his devotion was so tho... ... of the partner whom he takes before the T ribunal of Commerce than in the choice of the wife whom he weds at the Mayor’s office. Was it not enough al... ...d by Charles IX. on the day of Saint- Bartholomew. He lived to be rich and honored in his old age, and lectured on the ‘Science of Earths,’ as he call... ... better, I grew worse; a fatal element entered into my life through my own choice. Yes, unbounded ambition makes an obscure existence simply impossibl...

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...Excerpt: The Comte De Fontaine, head of one of the oldest families in Poitou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La Vendee against the Republic. After having escaped all the dangers which threatened the...

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...The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...e was—to quote the wittiest and most suc- 6 The Ball at Sceaux cessful of our diplomates—one of the faithful five hundred who shared the exile of the... ... director-general, or minister. Neither you nor I, as employes, could keep our place on account of our opinions. Representative government has this ad... ... the age of nineteen Emilie de Fontaine had not yet been pleased to make a choice from among the many young men whom her father’s politics brought to ... ...ure prospects. You are at this moment under the necessity of making such a choice of a husband as may secure your du- rable happiness—” “My good fathe...

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...Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tr... ...s which are rest after seeing Rome. You do not know, perhaps, that most of our professors live on Germany, on England, on the East, or on the North, a... ...ties which can dazzle us to the point of making us forget all else—even at our age. Though you may have fifty thousand francs a year, your age counter... ...er in almond-paste, eau-de-Portu- gal, and hair-oil, and was only too much honored when my only daughter was married to the son of Monsieur le Baron H... ...allien, finished with peculiar care by Nature, who bestows on them all her choicest gifts—distinction, dig- nity, grace, refinement, elegance, flesh o... ...ll this luxury was commonplace. Art, and the distinction that comes of the choice of things that taste assimilates, was entirely want- ing. A doctor o...

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...l never gain an entrance. It was only invented in 1840, and derived beyond a doubt from the agglomeration of such swallows? nests about the Church of Our Lady of Loretto. This information is for etymoligists only. Those gentlemen would not be so often in a quandary if mediaeval writers had only taken such pains with details of contemporary manners as we take in these days ...

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...A Man of Business by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and others A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...A Man of Business by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and others A Penn State Electronic Classic... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Man of Business by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Penn- sylva... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication A Man of Business by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Penn- sylvania... ...a doubt from the agglomeration of such swallows’ nests about the Church of Our Lady of Loretto. This information is for etymoligists only. Those gentl... ...great descent, which, alas! means a great descent in fortune likewise, had honored the notary’s little establishment with his presence. At dinner, in ... ...rs, du Tillet and Nucingen; but in 1829 his part was so well known that—” “Our friends dropped him,” put in Bixiou. “They left him to his fate at last... ...t fancies she can catch a husband with a little finery.’ “‘It was your own choice,’ returned the Count. Just at that moment, in came Nucingen, of whom...

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...Excerpt: After the disasters of the revolution of July, which destroyed so many aristocratic fortunes dependent on the court, Madame la Princesse de Cadignan was clever enough to attribute to political events the total ruin she had caused by her own extravagance. The prince left France with the royal family, and never returned to it, leaving the princess in Paris, prot...

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...The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ...The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ... Series Publication The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ine equality was formerly maintained by the House of France itself; and in our day it is so still, at least, nominally; witness the care with which th... ...m of cost- liest price, such as none of the bourgeoises who now lord it in our industrial and fault-finding society would have dared to exhibit. This ... ... fact of which they themselves are well aware. Compelled to do without the choice exotics in the midst of which she had lived, and which set off so ch... ... she could not help admiring the grandeur of such simplicity. This game of choicest co- quetry attached her, insensibly, to her slave. At last, howeve...

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...S COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN TALES A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...CTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN TALES A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...D FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN TALES A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...ollected from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...d from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...rom the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ... LOVE DURING THE FIRST YEARS of the thirteenth century after the coming of our Divine Saviour there happened in the City of Paris an amorous adventure... ...n, called the T ouranian by the common people, because he had been born in our merry T ouraine, had for his true name that of Anseau. In his latter da... ...schereau, she had just reached the right age to be loved, without making a choice from any of the lads who pursued her with their intentions. Although...

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

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...Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tro... ...and Sechard promoted one of his four compositors to be foreman, making his choice on the future bishop’s recommendation of the man as an honest and in... ...s and sound condition. “Old tools are always the best tools,” said he. “In our line of business they ought to fetch more than the new, like goldbeater... ...eoccupation and finer nature he had not room for the dogged greed of which our successful man of business is made; it choked the keen money-getting in... ...the men whom she meets and the emptiness of her own life, can make but one choice; marriage and society became a cloister for Anais. She lived by poet...

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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- ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tro... ...se name appears on the covers of well-known sentimen- tal songs trilled by our mothers, to say nothing of a couple of operas, played in 1815 and 1816,... ...ring theatres. And yet, the worthy man did justice to the great masters of our day; a masterpiece finely rendered brought tears to his eyes; but his r... ...e dinner, pro- curing the first and best of everything, bringing out their choicest vintages, seeing carefully to the dessert, the coffee, the liqueur... ... was hopeless to think of love, and he remained a bachelor, not so much of choice as of necessity. Then Gluttony, the sin of the continent monk, becko... ...e Marville, announced by Mme. Cibot, was an event in the house. Pons, thus honored for the first time in his life saw reparation ahead. “At last, my d...