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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...

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...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, ...

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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... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage TOWARD... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage TOWARDS THREE O’CLOCK in the aftern... ...sin Pons by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage TOWARDS THREE O’CLOCK in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty ... ... the Paris cab- horse; rising every morning, summer and winter, at seven o’clock, and setting out after breakfast to give music lessons in the boardin... ...mbitious effort. Pons, as a rule, only went to his theatre towards eight o’clock, when the piece in favor came on, and overtures and accompaniments ne...

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Excerpt: The Recruit 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: Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and others.

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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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...The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse... ...The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse de... ...e Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portab... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...electronic transmission, in any way. The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim ... ...reeable to you, you will always find me at home in the evening until ten o’clock.” The invitation was given with such irresistible grace, that M. de M... ...and then at last he dressed, came to the Hotel de Langeais towards eight o’clock that evening, and was ad- mitted. He was to see the woman—ah! not the... ...ked. “I am go- ing to a ball, but I shall stay at home for you until ten o’clock.” Montriveau spent most of the next day in smoking an in- determinate...

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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 ...

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Excerpt: Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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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... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Honorine by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell Dedication To... ...niversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Honorine by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell Dedication To Monsieur Achille Deveria ... ...trousers showed below her petticoats. After dinner till nine 6 Honorine o’clock, when a collation was served, though the conversa- tion had been gay ... ... event of God’s taking me to Himself. I shall have finished mass at nine o’clock; you have three-quarters of an hour before you. Be ready.’ “ ‘What, u... ...riars have been waiting in the drawing-room for two hours.’ “It was nine o’clock. “ ‘Well, gentlemen, you find yourselves compelled to dine with pries...

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

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Excerpt: A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: MME. VAUQUER (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known i...

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Excerpt: The Purse by Honore de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell.

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