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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...d rose amid the appointments of modern luxury and the choice appliances of English “com- fort,” he remembered the details of his visit to that cloiste... ...om the confidence expressed in the house of Mongenod was not a wound. Like English houses, the Mongenods made no external display of luxury. They live... ... of age, cold, silent, and reserved in manner like a Swiss, and neat as an Englishman, had acquired by inter- course with his father all the qualities... ...ion of Holland with the French Empire caused the vessel to be taken by the English and sent to Jamaica, from which island I escaped by mere chance. Wh... ...the Department A Prince of Bohemia A Man of Business The Unconscious Humorists Popinot, Jean-Jules Cesar Birotteau Honorine The Commission...

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...g student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ludes the pointed ears! O, it is impossible, of course,” she continued, in English, “with a real and commonplace young man like Donatello; but you see... ...her country. By still another account she was the lady of 17 Hawthorne an English nobleman; and, out of mere love and honor of art, had thrown aside ... ...rcase for the last time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, ... ...t your own. Daisies, too, were abundant, but larger than the modest little English flower, and therefore of small account. These wooded and flowery la... ...ends peacefully along its base, full, not of apple-trees, but of those old humorists with gnarled trunks and twisted boughs, the olives. Houses have b...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... in a young man by the fanciful pictures of women drawn by Westall for the English “Keepsakes,” and that engraved by the Findens with so clever a tool... ...ive per cent.” “D-d-did you c-c-call him Je-Je-Jeremy B-Ben?” “Bentham, an Englishman.’ “That’s a Jeremy who might save us a lot of lamentations in bu... ...e us a lot of lamentations in business,” said the notary, laughing. “Those Englishmen s-sometimes t-t-talk sense,” said Grandet. “So, ac-c-cording to ... ...inary Mistress A Prince of Bohemia A Daughter of Eve The Unconscious Humorists Nucingen, Baronne Delphine de 171 Balzac Father Goriot The T...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BALLENA, SPANISH. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, FEGEE. PEKEE-N... ...pture of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six English miles. ... “Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the a... ...r version of the Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage... ...oland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun... ...like a charm upon the crew. Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists, whose jollity is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put all...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... was fast going mad; and, as with other crazy people (among whom I include humorists of every degree), it required all the constancy of friendship to ...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ...ixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other civiliza tions of far later times, it is safe to consi... ...ness, how the immortal idea happened to occur to him; and as is the way with humorists of his breed, he was still laughing at it after everybody else ... ...g, the earliest samples of the real lady and real gentleman discoverable in English history — or in Eu ropean history, for that matter — may be sai... ... century that poison was still in the blood of Christendom, and the best of English commoners was still content to see his inferiors impudently conti... ...ound and caused no more embarrassment than it would have caused in the best English society twelve centu A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...tremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that constitutes the education of a well-b... ...his nature. He had as great a horror for straight courses as the lovers of English gardens show in the lines of their paths. Dutocq, having still a po... ... I beg you not to take in ill part: I do not believe in ‘railways,’ as the English call them.” “That’s an opinion to which you have every right,” said... ...her voice so vibrating a tone that her song ended in the midst of what the English call a thun- der of applause. La Peyrade, who feared her extremely,... ...ser Bourgeoisie A Man of Business The Middle Classes The Unconscious Humorists Metivier Lost Illusions The Government Clerks The Middle Cl... ... A Daughter of Eve The Member for Arcis Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Vinet Pierrette The Member for Arcis 446 The Lesser Bourgeoi...

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...islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, throug...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e, some have ap- peared already in The Cornhill, Longman ’s, Scribner, The english Illustrated, The Magazine of Art, The contemporary Review; three ar... ... cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Mic... ...ehole, on St. Michael’s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of Nort... ...or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy id... ...ld deform the attitudes he loves to study, and change his sitters from the humorists of ordinary life to the brute forces and bare types of more emoti...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ther God nor man. He applies in private life the principles that guide the English Cabinet. Up to the time of his marriage, his life was one continual... ...r Arcis Beatrix 22 A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Cardot (Parisian notary) The Muse of the Departme... ... Cousin Betty A Prince of Bohemia The Middle Classes The Unconscious Humorists Montcornet, Marechal, Comte de Domestic Peace Lost Illusions ... ...story The Muse of the Department A Prince of Bohemia The Unconscious Humorists Nucingen, Baron Frederic de The Firm of Nucingen Father Gorio... ...f a Princess Cousin Betty The Muse of the Department The Unconscious Humorists Samanon A Distinguished Provincial at Paris The Government Cl... ...zac The Secrets of a Princess Cousin Betty Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists T urquet, Marguerite The Imaginary Mistress The Muse of the D...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...guished Provincial at Paris A Bachelor’s Establishment The Unconscious Humorists Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Ano... ...the Department A Prince of Bohemia A Man of Business The Unconscious Humorists Navarreins, Duc de A Bachelor’s Establishment Colonel Chabert... ... of Business Cousin Betty The Muse of the Department The Unconscious Humorists Rastignac, Eugene de Father Goriot A Distinguished Provincial... ...e Firm of Nucingen Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis The Unconscious Humorists Rochefide, Marquise de Beatrix A Daughter of Eve Sarrasine ... ... A Daughter of Eve The Member for Arcis Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Toby (Joby, Paddy) The Firm of Nucingen T railles, Comte Maxime...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...Our friend is not a ‘chap,’ as Finot describes him, but a gentleman in the English sense, who knows the cards and knows the game; whom, more- over, th... ...om, though for that matter it was so narrow that he seldom slept in it. An Englishwoman might have visited his rooms and found nothing ‘improper’ ther... ... dresscoat; a clever man; no high mightiness, no constraint, nothing of an Englishman about him. In accordance with the tradition 18 The Firm of Nuci... ...egs when he sat alone before his own hearth for fear of being improper. An English gentle- woman, were she one of the rabid ‘Saints’—that most straite... ...for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Blondet, Emile Jealousies of a Country T own A ... ... of Business Cousin Betty The Muse of the Department The Unconscious Humorists Nucingen, Baronne Delphine de Father Goriot The Thirteen Eu... ...Mystery 73 Balzac Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis The Unconscious Humorists Taillefer, Jean-Frederic Father Goriot The Magic Skin The R... ... A Daughter of Eve The Member for Arcis Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Toby (Joby, Paddy) The Secrets of a Princess Werbrust Cesar B...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ause I happened to be one of them myself, were all, in their various ways, humorists. “Sidney’s Sister: Pembroke’s Mother” And now to return to Shakes... ...general defi- ciency in his mind, but the simple fact that in his day what English land needed was individual appropriation and culti- vation, and wha... ...h land needed was individual appropriation and culti- vation, and what the English Constitution needed was the incorporation of Whig principles of ind...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ..., indicated quite as plainly as the cut of his clothes that the man was an Englishman, reeking of his native isles. You had only to look at the collar... ...rs buttoned up to the knee, and the half- puritanical costume of a wealthy Englishman dressed for a walking excursion. The intolerable glitter of the ... ... electricity. “The safe is closed,” said Castanier. “It is open,” said the Englishman, looking round the count- ing-house. “To-morrow is Sunday, and I... ... the money there, and I must have it.” “But how did you come in, sir?” The Englishman smiled. That smile frightened Castanier. No words could have rep... ... of Eve 49 Balzac The Member for Arcis Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists To return to the Electronic Classics Series, go to http://www.hn....

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...t once, and the red color 9 Balzac returned as he affected the airs of an Englishman, to whom life can offer no new sensation, and disappeared withou... ...Drawing of apparently Sanskrit characters omitted here.] Or, as it runs in English: Possessing me thou shalt possess all things. But thy life is mine,... ...brought about national suicides; their triumph left them as listless as an English mil- lionaire.” “Won’t you tell us something new? You have made fun... ... their heads as though there were royal protectors still in the market. An English- woman seemed like a spirit of melancholy—some coy, pale, shadowy f... ...r Study of Woman A Start in Life Beatrix 237 Balzac The Unconscious Humorists The Member for Arcis Dudley, Lady Arabella The Lily of the Va... ...om a Courtesan’s Life A Daughter of Eve Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Navarreins, Duc de A Bachelor’s Establishment Colonel Chabert... ...e Firm of Nucingen Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis The Unconscious Humorists Taillefer, Jean-Frederic The Firm of Nucingen Father Goriot ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ce for such a life and your antecedents will enable you to marry some rich English woman hungry for a title. That’s an aristo- cratic life which seems... ...“Don’t be uneasy; we will treat you politely, as Maison- Rouge treated the English at Fontenoy.” 13 Balzac CHAPTER II THE PINK OF FASHION THOUGH THE ... ... the chateau de Lanstrac, where he introduced the comfort and luxury of an English country-house, absorbed the capital saved by the notary during the ... ...s icy barriers, also a tone of Byronic pessimism as to life, together with English plate, boot-polish, ponies, yellow gloves, cigars, and the habit of... ...lley A Daughter of Eve Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Father Goriot...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...uple of hours. The spencer, as its name indicates, was the invention of an English lord, vain, doubtless, of his handsome shape. Some time before the ... ...ing in the minority, the success of the spencer was short-lived in France, English though it was. At the sight of the spencer, men of forty or fifty m... ...dissipations contrary to all German habits. The wicked Ger- man hoped that English horses, Rhine vinegar, and Goethe’s Marguerites would ruin the Jewe... ...re were frames of every kind—V enetians, carved with heavy ornaments, like English plate of the present day; Romans, distinguishable among the others ... ...for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Braulard A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Cousin Betty Bri... ... Life Honorine Florent Cousin Betty Fontaine, Madame The Unconscious Humorists Gaudissart, Felix Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Cesar Birott... ...e Mignon Beatrix The Member for Arcis Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Thouvenin Cesar Birotteau Vinet Pierrette The Member for Ar...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e with claws, scissors, impudent as a Spanish woman, snarling as a prudish English woman pro- claiming her conjugal rights, coquettish as a great lady... ... husband to eau de Melisse for faintness, sugarplums for the children, and English court-plaster in case of cuts. Jules studied all. He looked attenti... ... few men of my age who would have had the patience to learn Portuguese and English, which were spoken fluently by that devil of a sailor, who was drow... ...The Duchesse of Langeais The Girl with the Golden Eyes The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Father Goriot...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...consequence a lasting feud with the old Puritan official. But at his death English left daughters, one of whom is said to have married the son of Just... ...one of whom is said to have married the son of Justice John Hathorne, whom English had declared he would never forgive. It is scarcely necessary to po... ...y , by virtue of which the owner had hoped to establish an es- tate on the English plan, with a tenantry to make it profit- able for him. An incident ... .... Others have supposed that the now vanished house of The identical Philip English, whose blood, as we have already noticed, became mingled with that ... ...rd, and beast, in as grotesque a landscape. These pictured people were odd humorists, in a 69 Hawthorne world of their own,—a world of vivid brillian...