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...Excerpt: At Paris there are almost always two separate parties going on at every ball and rout. First, an official party, composed of the persons invited, a fashionable and much-bored circle. Each one grimaces for his neighbor?s eye; most of the younger women are there for one person only; when each woman has assured herself that for that one she is the ...

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...ra Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a pub... ... Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...noré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...riage and Clara Bell Dedication To Leon Gozlan as a Token of Literary Good-fellowship. AT PARIS there are almost always two separate parties going on ... ...t. Elsewhere in Europe you will find elegant manners, cordi- ality, genial fellowship, and knowledge; but only in Paris, in this drawing-room, and tho... ...aps we are not more ready to talk face to face with the dessert and in the society of good wine, during the de- lightful interval when every one may s... ... have lady-like wives, obliged to share their opera-box with other ladies; royal favor could not raise them higher by a hair’s breadth; they glide unr... ... so naturally as to exclude all idea of art or premeditation. If she has a royally beautiful hand, the most perspicacious be- holder will believe that...

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Excerpt: One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith.

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILL... ...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEAC... ...M MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty ... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...went off, then, to his pleasures at Bruxelles, in which capital many young fellows of our army declared they found infinitely greater diversion even t... ...n of the most precious part of himself—his money—which he sent over to the royal exiles. Mr. Tunstal, who was in the Prince’s service, was twice or th... ... being asked by the Colonel, saluted him, and said that he belonged to the Royal Cravats. From his way of saying “Royal Cravat,” Esmond at once knew t... ... small, as the company of their betters in rank or natural parts; in whose society they lose the overweening sense of their own importance, which stay... ... wearer; and though a knot of us were gathered round the charming Jocasta, fellows who pre- tended to know every face upon the town, not one could tel...

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...Prologue: Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hin...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual pre...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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