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...: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort ...

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...look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, an... ...- pearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. “Ah, is it you, Dantes?” cried th... ...d Edmond seems to understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction from any one.” “Yes,” said Danglars, darting at Edmond a look gleaming with... ...aderousse, beginning the con- versation, with that brutality of the common people in which curios- ity destroys all diplomacy, “you look uncommonly li... ...eking to rem- edy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people.” “What would you have me do?” said Fernand. “How do I know? Is it m... ...le reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel th... ...rejudices of the army; he whom in Paris you call the Corsican ogre, who at Nevers is styled the usurper, is already saluted as Bonaparte at Lyons, and...

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...een years, the Patent Office has received more than a hundred applications from persons claiming to have discovered cheap substances to be employed in... ...exercising his natural faculties, and his work is its own reward,” and the people believe them. Marriage brings profound mental and physical perturba-... ... the household cares and to take the burden upon herself. So she came down from the pretty blue-and-white room, where she sewed and talked contentedly... ... depart- ment; the alluring prospect of high wages even brought them a few from Bordeaux, more especially apprentices, who thought themselves sufficie... ...; Kolb would not peer among the things that you throw out into the yard if people offered him a thousand crowns to do it; but Cerizet picks them up an... ...t is poor stuff, you behold a rag at the last. So long as Lucien is young, people will like him; but where will he be as a man of thirty? That is the ... ...as nursing the deputy-magistrate’s wife, who had just given the Milauds of Nevers an heir presump- tive; and Eve, in her distrust of all attorneys and... ...attorney for him in the court here. M. Milaud is defi- nitely appointed to Nevers, Petit-Claud will sell his practice, you will have no difficulty in ... ...stroke. “M. Milaud is just about to be appointed attorney for the crown at Nevers, my dear fellow,” he continued; “sell your practice, and in ten year...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ...Saint-Simon and they by land. On the way their fears redoubled. Arrived at Nevers, and lodged in a hostelrie, they thought it would not be well to com... ...of Justice. The Comte de Toulouse had been to supper at the house of M. de Nevers, near Saint-Denis, and did not return until late into the night. The...

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...hern coast. The hill on which the houses of Sancerre are grouped is so far from the river that the little river-port of Saint-Thibault thrives on the ... ...re wine is shipped and oak staves are landed, with all the produce brought from the up- per and lower Loire. At the period when this story begins the ... ...ion bridges at Cosne and at Saint-Thibault were al- ready built. Travelers from Paris to Sancerre by the southern road were no longer ferried across t... ...d, at hearing that handsome young Milaud, the Attorney-General’s deputy at Nevers, say to Monsieur de Clagny as they were looking at the turrets of La... ...geling as little La Baudraye must hate that colossal Milaud.” There was at Nevers a plebeian branch of the Milauds, which had grown so rich in the cut... ... of a studied style. And so men came from Cosne, from la Charite, and from Nevers, on the right bank; from Lere, Vailly, Argent, Blancafort, and Aubig... ...her unseen superiority was genuine. This whimsical medley is commoner than people think. Dinah, who was ridiculous from the perversity of her clever- ... ...place of second-rate ideas, in- difference to dress, the culture of vulgar people, swamp the sublimer essence hidden in the youthful plant; all is ove... ..., and the town is proud of her; but everybody sees her every day, and when people meet every day their percep- tion is dulled. If, like Madame de la B...

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... beautiful, whose intelli- gent smile gives promise that she has inherited from you the most precious gifts of womanhood, and who will cer- tainly enj... ... Titian, Correggio, Allori, which seem abstractions, so dis- tant are they from our daily lives. If this book should wing its way across the Alps, it ... ...d with tur- quoise, and suspended by chains of beautiful workmanship, hung from the centre of the ceiling. The same system of deco- ration was followe... ...ains of righteousness. The history of all good homes is that of prosperous peoples; it can be written in two lines, and has in it nothing for literatu... ...ything. Kind- ness has its mishaps; often it is attributed to temperament; people are seldom willing to recognize it as the secret effort of a noble s... ...I understand now why Saint-Just wanted to guillo- tine this whole class of people.” “You’ll be back here to-morrow.” Blondet was right. Passions are a... ... she gives me the money,” said the countess. “Schmucke lives in the rue de Nevers on the quai Conti; don’t forget the address, and go yourself.” “Than... ...e hotel du Mail on her way. The carriage could not enter the narrow rue de Nevers; but as Schmucke lived in a house at the corner of the quai she was ...

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...olume I: The First T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ... 4 Balzac Droll Stories Vol. 1 by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume I: The First T en T ales Translators Pre... ...ouraine, unas- sisted by map or guide. Not only is this book a work of art from its historical information and topographical accuracy; its claims to t... ...good Touranian, and joy- fully to chronicle the merry doings of the famous people of this sweet and productive land, more fertile in cuckolds, dan- di... ...us, soak- ing into us, and dissolving those ancient customs which make the people to reap public amusement from the Republic. But of those old pantagr... ...here were so many sweet cour- tesans, well developed, but cold to the poor people, who inhabited Constance, to enlighten the understanding of the Fath... ...hought of the fair Limeuil, one of Queen Catherine’s maids, of Mesdames de Nevers, d’Estree, and de 121 Droll Stories – Vol. 1 Giac, all of whom were...

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...esting her two moist hands on the pillow and so turning her suffering body from a posture in which she could find no ease. At the slight- est rustling... ...’s lips, she was filled with a sudden terror that revived the color driven from her cheeks by her double anguish. The prisoner reached the prison door... ...her eyes upon them, fearing to see them move, or to hear a startling laugh from their gaping and twisted mouths. At this moment a tempest was growling... ...ne de Saint-Savin, a young lady who, by a not uncommon chance in days when people were killed off like flies, had suddenly become the representative o... ...the analysis of natural phenomena. Persecu- tion begat mystery. So, to the people as well as to the nobles, physician and alchemist, mathematician and... ...ed in medicine, and was given to the study of natural science. The country people saw his study full of books and other strange things which gave to h... ...d his body- guard. Several princes allied to the royal house—Guise, Conde, Nevers, and Vendome, etc.—had pages chosen among the sons of the best famil...

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...rs of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from ca- price, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple ... ...tent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer’s uniform. >From the moment we had no rest till we could find some trace in contemporar... ... against the king, but never against cardinal or Spain. It resulted, then, from this habit that on the said first Monday of April, 1625, the citizens,... ...n in botany, but till the present time very rare among horses.” “There are people who laugh at the horse that would not dare to laugh at the master,” ... ...ground, covered with blood and almost fainting. It was at this moment that people came flocking to the scene of action from all sides. The host, fearf... ...re he does. He causes a disturbance in your hos- telry , which respectable people cannot put up with. Go; make out my bill and notify my servant.” “Wh... ...ordinary men that ever lived, preparing, after having supported the Duc de Nevers in his duchy of Mantua, after having taken Nimes, Castres, and Uzes,...

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............................. 6 CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.?Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.?The Four Stars.?Cato.?The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ............................................................................................................ 6 CANTO II. Sunrise.?The Poets on the shore.?Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing ...

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...er on the shore of Purgatory.—The Four Stars.—Cato.—The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ..................................................... ...... 53 CANTO XV . Second Ledge: the Envious.—An Angel removes the second P from Dante’s forehead.—Discourse concerning the Sharing of Good.—Ascent to ... .............................. 60 CANTO XVII. Third Ledge the Wrathful.—Issue from the Smoke.—Vision of examples of Anger.—Ascent to the Fourth Ledge, wh... ... mind upon the other pole, and saw four stars never seen save by the first people. 4 The heavens appeared to rejoice in their flamelets. O widowed no... ...ide men in the right path, but not to bring them to Paradise. By the first people arc prob- ably meant Adam and Eve, who from the terrestrial Para- di... ...an this, along which I have set myself. I have shown to him all the guilty people; and now I intend to show him those spir- its that purge themselves ... ...himself, the husband first of Beatrice of Provence and then of Margaret of Nevers, was inferior to Peter, the husband of Constance. 16 Henry III., fa...

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...es in Bohemia. — Civil War. — Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Religion from Styria. — The Elector Palatine, Frederick V., is chosen King by the Bo... ...ical sym- pathy announced itself; a desolating war of thirty years, which, from the interior of Bohemia to the mouth of the Scheldt, and from the bank... ... was the result of the war. As the sparks of de- struction found their way from the interior of Bohemia, Moravia, and Austria, to kindle Ger- many, Fr... ...werless would have been the ar- guments of theologians; and the cry of the people would never have met with princes so willing to espouse their cause,... ...r blood for the personal objects of their princes. And well was it for the people that, on this occasion, their interests coincided with those of thei... ...nnect the in- terests of the cabinet with some one that sits nearer to the people’s heart, if such exists, or if not, to create it. In such a position... ...and Montferrat, dying without issue, his next rela- tion, Charles, Duke of Nevers, had taken pos- session of this inheritance, without doing hom- age ...