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...en Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pen... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage To Monsieur Savary, ... ...perate game- ster will often give the bystanders. How much can happen in a second’s space; how many things depend on a throw of the die! “That was his... ...e down the steps at the end of the bridge, his notice was attracted by the second-hand books displayed on the parapet, and he was on the point of bar-... ...he delicate outlines beneath. The young lady went into the shop, purchased albums and sets of lithographs; giving several gold coins for them, which g... ...re brightly than the sun, receiving the prayers of sufferers, on whom this second Eve Regenerate smiles pityingly. At the touch of a mosaic, made of v...

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...................................................................................................................................... 18 Preface to the Second Edition. ..................................................................................................................................... 21 The Poems of Goethe. ......................................................

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........................................................... 18 Preface to the Second Edition. .............................................................. ................................................... 27 When the Fox Dies, His Skin Counts* ................................................................. ......................................................................... 215 SECOND ODE. .................................................................. ................................................................. 258 FROM AN ALBUM OF 1604. ............................................................... .............................................................. 460 FROM FAUST—SECOND PART. ................................................................. ...y, where now her land? Where, alas, the way? 1775.* When the Fox Dies, His Skin Counts* (* The name of a game, known in English as “Jack’s alight.”) W... ... falls, In thy shoulders Cunningly plants them. 218 Goethe Strong are his skinny arms, As panther-claws; He shaketh thee, And rends thy frame. Death ... ...is, And made mine own, to mine exceeding bliss. 1820.* 266 Goethe FROM AN ALBUM OF 1604. HOPE provides wings to thought, and love to hope. Rise up to...

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...Preface: A preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. To the Press,...

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...E TO THE FIRST EDITION of Jane Eyre being unneces- sary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous... ...im—if he will accept the tribute of a total stranger—I have dedicated this second edition of Jane Eyre. Currer Bell December 21st, 1847 NOTE TO THE TH... ...r I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremit... ...: he called his mother “old girl,” too; sometimes reviled her for her dark skin, similar to his own; bluntly disregarded her wishes; not unfrequently ... ...Reed knocked me down, and my aunt shut me up in the red-room.” Mr. Lloyd a second time produced his snuff-box. “Don’t you think Gateshead Hall a very ... ...tly regular; under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth; her skin was dark and opaque, her hair nearly flaxen; her constitution was soun... ...ngram pair? She is standing alone at the table, bending gracefully over an album. She seems waiting to be sought; but she will not wait too long: she ... ...; and each, in turn, sat for a pencil outline. Then Georgiana produced her album. I promised to contribute a water-colour drawing: this put her at onc...

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... square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-n...

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...f it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amaz... ...briefly at its slumbrous first epoch in a couple of short chap ters; at its second and wider awake epoch in a couple more; at its flushest and widest... ...ed to get the bronzed and weather beaten look of an old traveler. Before the second day was half gone I experienced a joy which filled me with the pur... ...erienced a joy which filled me with the purest gratitude; for I saw that the skin had begun to blister and peel off my face and neck. I wished that th... ...t the wheel again. So it was four o’clock and all well—but me; I felt like a skinful of dry bones and all of them trying to ache at once. Mr. Bixby as... ...d got to have orders! Orders, is it? Orders is what you want! Dod dern my skin, I’ll learn you to swell yourself up and blow around here about you... ...away mezzotints; also, Ossian; “Alonzo and Melissa:” maybe “Ivanhoe:” also “Album,” full of original “poetry” of the Thou hast wounded the spirit tha...

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...UMBLE - ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG II. FULL REPORT OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING III. FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A LION VI.MR. ROBERT BOLTON: THE ?GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS? VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE F...

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...MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING III. FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHIN... ...the premises of a sweet stuff maker, where a raffle had been announced for a second hand seal skin cap and a tam bourine; and where a sufficient ... ... sweet stuff maker, where a raffle had been announced for a second hand seal skin cap and a tam bourine; and where a sufficient number of members... ...ned BOZ. Mudfog and Other Sketches Charles Dickens 38 FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHIN... ...romises of interceding to procure the majestic brute’s sign manual for their albums. Then, there were little private consultations in different corner...

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...Excerpt: When I came up to town for my second year, my aunt Hoggarty made me a present of a diamond pin; that is to say, it was not a diamond-pin then, but a large old-fashioned locket, of Dublin manufacture in the year 1795, which the late Mr. Hoggarty used to sp...

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...ILLAGE AND THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE DIAMOND W HEN I CAME UP TO TOWN for my second year, my aunt Hoggarty made me a present of a diamond- pin; that is ... ...ve a notion that Hoskins and I, blowing duets on the flute together in our second floor in Salisbury Square, were a great deal more at ease than our h... ...exist.” “Y ou are quite right to stand up for your friends, sir,” said the second lady; whose name, it appears, was Lady Jane, but whom the grandmamma... ...wrong. Who is his father, then?” “Ma’am, Gus’s father’s a leatherseller in Skinner Street, Snow Hill,—a very respectable house, ma’am. But Gus is only... ...ond floor, and there, on the table, between our two flutes on one side, my album, Gus’s “Don Juan” and “Peerage” on the other, I saw as follows:— 1. A... ...hip’s cousin too, which cannot be, for I know all his family: they live in Skinner Street and St. Mary Axe, and are not—not quite so respectable as my... ...ne whom I did not know,—and that was old Mr. Hoskins, the leatherseller of Skinner Street, a kind fat gentleman, who brought his fat wife to see Mrs. ...

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...ding. The young ladies who passed by sketched Pere Merlier’s mill in their albums. On the side facing the highway the structure was more solid. A ston... ...s shadow. In the background the building displayed the four windows of its second story, surmounted by a pigeon house. Pere Merlier’s sole vanity was ... ... doubtful man was superb; supple and tall as a poplar, he had a very white skin, with flaxen hair and beard which gleamed like gold in the sun. One fi... ... his feet; the soldiers left their plates of soup, yet half full. In a few seconds everybody was at the post of duty; from bottom to top the mill was ... ...to the right and to the left the highway stretched out, empty and white. A second shot was heard, and still nothing visible, not even a shadow. But as... ...as doubtless asleep. She crumbled more plaster from the wall, scraping the skin off her fingers. She was utterly exhausted; she felt herself falling b...

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...irmer, and stronger, with round white well-cushioned limbs; Kate was tall, skinny, and brown, though perfectly healthful. The face of the one was roun... ...finger, holding down her head. Sylvia, however, seemed to jump in her very skin, and open- ing her eyes, cried out, “The title! Then Kate is is oh, wh... ...alf-past seven, Kate met Mrs. Lacy in the school-room, read the Psalms and Second Lesson, and learnt some an- swers to questions on the Catechism, to ... ...t last, Lady Barbara was engaged to be married to a brother officer of her second brother, James; but just then poor Jane fell so ill, that the doctor... ...at by; the children were behind the heavy red curtains that parted off the second room. There was a great silence at first, then began a little titter... ...held fast, every button was slippery, and the tighter garments fitted like skins. Kate was subdued and frightened; she gave no trouble, but all the he... ...th her own performance, and thought it quite worthy of a little ornamental album, where she could write out the verses and gum in the drawings. “Pleas... ...d Kate began to lament. “If she could only have gone to the bazaar for her album! It was very hard!” “Eh,” Josephine said, “why should they not go? Th... ...ldered to do more than hurry along the passages, staring so wildly for her albums, that Josephine touched her, and said, “T enez, Miladi, they will th...

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...e anchoring, and dress the ship in mourning.” The owner did not wait for a second invitation. He seized a rope which Dantes flung to him, and with an ... ...ch character to what is said, “If Paris had La Canebiere, Paris would be a second Marseilles.” On turning round the owner saw Danglars behind him, app... ...ied by a tall, strapping, black-eyed Catalan, with a red complexion, brown skin, and fierce air, whom she calls cousin.” “Really; and you think this c... ...rcedes, who will detest you if you have only the misfortune to scratch the skin of her dearly beloved Edmond!” “True!” said Fernand. “No, no,” continu... ... into a network of ruby-tinted light. The feast had been made ready on the second floor at La Reserve, with whose arbor the reader is already familiar... ... this great man, this hero, this demigod, is attacked with a malady of the skin which worries him to death, prurigo?” “And, moreover, my dear duke,” c... ...o 404 gels and women with the features of a virgin; sketches torn from the album of Dauzats’ “Travels in the East,” that had been made in a few second... ...bray, standing before a small work-table, was turning over the pages of an album. Lucien had found time, preparatory to the count’s arrival, to relate... ...l circumstances detailed by Debray . This posing at the piano and over the album was only a little ruse adopted by way of precaution. A most gracious ...

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... and even if I were, that is no reason why you should not trust me. In the second, I have been flattered with your confi- dence on more than one occas... ...surroundings he had come to of his own accord, and repeated his question a second time. Nejdanov started. “Of course,” he began hurriedly, “I should l... ... origin. His tiny ears, hands, feet, his small but fine features, delicate skin, wavy hair; his very voice was pleasant, although it was slightly gutt... ...ense. “Oh, nothing. Goodbye. It’s nothing.” She squeezed Nejdanov’s hand a second time and went out. “There is not a soul in St. Petersburg who is so ... ...danov wandering aimlessly about the room and turning over the photographic albums, apparently without any interest, Sipiagin begged him not to be on c... ...you any idea what Falyeva is like?” “Not in the least.” “He is the biggest skinflint in Moscow. A regular bour- geois.” At this moment Solomin entered... ...echanic or a stoker in an old pea-jacket with baggy pock- ets, with an oil-skin cap on his head, a woollen scarf round his neck, and tarred boots on h... ...s”, “The World’s Mirror”, or “Amides”, or turned over the leaves of an old album, bound in red morocco, with gilt edges. This album had once belonged,... ...ld, And other interesting people. 112 Virgin Soil On the last page of the album, instead of verses, there were various recipes for remedies against s...

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...ll driving, and approaching very fast to the shore, Mr. Henry Meriton, the second mate, went again into the cuddy, where the captain then was. Another... ...ch latter monster, our mind’s eye now recalls a worthy Frenchman in a seal skin cap with a braided hood over it, once our travelling companion in the ... ...orce of Custom house offic ers, and marched into a gloomy dungeon. In the second place, the road to this dungeon is fenced off with ropes breast hig... ...nt struggles, as if it were a life boat and the dungeon a ship going down; secondly, that the military creature’s arm is a national affront, which the... ...ere is an ancient belfry in it that would have been in all the Annuals and Albums, going and gone, these hundred years if it had but been more expensi... ... were laid in, to rasp Augustus George? Am I to be told that his sensitive skin was ever intended by Nature to have rashes brought out upon it, by the... ... Field? Assistant Commissioner of Police is already here, enwrapped in oil skin cloak, and standing in the shadow of Saint Giles’s steeple. Detective ...

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...a. Mr . Carey stood up slowly and shook hands with the little boy. Then on second thoughts he bent down and kissed his forehead. He was a man of somew... ...e fires all over the place. If they wanted all them fires they must keep a second girl. In the winter Mr. and Mrs. Carey lived in the dining-room so t... ... days. She looked at herself in the glass. Her face was very pale, but her skin was clear: she had never had much colour , and this had always made th... ... see he’s been very badly brought up. He wants licking into shape.” On the second Sunday after Philip arrived an unlucky incident occurred. Mr . Carey... ...till re- mained. But Mr. Gordon had only escaped the country living by the skin of his teeth, and he had never hit a boy since. The right the masters ... ... with an immense belly , a black beard turning now to gray , and a swarthy skin. In his clerical dress there was indeed some- thing in him to suggest ... ... Louisa during her youth had painted in water colours, and she had several albums filled with sketches of churches, old bridges, and picturesque cot- ... ...aged had invited her to visit them in England, and she had set off with an album of water colours to show how accom- plished she was and a bundle of l...

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...w, The Golden Years re- turn, The Earth doth like a Snake renew Her Winter Skin outworn: Heaven smiles, and Faiths and Empires gleam Like Wrecks of a ... ...ome sweethearts before we were eighteen years old. My mother and hers were second cousins and old schoolfellows, and though my mother had been widowed... ...h obsolete inadequate formulae, it was tortuous to a maze-like degree with secondary contrivances and adaptations, sup- pressions, conventions, and su... ...me again,” but for the rest, Frobisher might fail me. That, however, was a secondary issue. The predominant affair was with Nettie. I found my mind th... ...t him. She had taken all the possibility of beauty he possessed, his clear skin, his bright hazel-brown eyes, and wedded them to a certain quick- ness... ...s a youngster of fourteen perhaps, of whom a hard bright stare, and a pale skin like her mother’s, are the chief traces on my memory. All these people... ...e under the window was littered with photo- graphic material and the later albums of his continental sou- venirs, and on the American cloth trimmed sh... ...ps eight hundred altogether, including the reverend gentleman’s photograph albums and college and school text- books. This suggestion of learning was ...

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... had snapped, sharply striking the sensitive body of the instru- ment. The second string had broken near Christmas, but no one had heard the faint moa... ... dragon ….’ The fog was white at the window. They sat waiting. After a few seconds the sound came low, swelling, like the mooing of some great sea ani... ...l, alone, the last of the monsters. The whole fog gave off the sound for a second or two, then it died down into an intense silence. Siegmund and Hele... ...r?’ ‘What music do you think holds the best interpretation of sunset?’ His skin was gold, his real mood was intense. She revered 24 The Trespasser hi... ...d with a long red slash. Siegmund watched the blood travel over the bright skin. It wound itself redly round the rise of his knee. ‘That is I, that cr... ...overs had to cross this desert of white boulders, that glistened in smooth skins uncannily. But Siegmund saw the waves were almost at the wall of the ... ...ere was no movement perceptible. Vera entered, ostensibly for an autograph-album into which she was going to copy a draw- ing from the London Opinion,...

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...book had been published six months. And the opening section of Chapter the Second remains now, after the reality has happened, a fairly adequate diagn... ...e diagnosis of the essentials of the matter. One happy hit (in Chapter the Second, Section 2), on which the writer may congratulate himself, is the fo... ...does only a minute frac- tion of the radium disintegrate in any particular second? Why does it dole itself out so slowly and so exactly? Why does not ... ...nd nonagenarians and all that sort of thing. Incredibly. They used to keep albums of cuttings from all the illustrated papers showing them at it, and ... ...liar dryness and a blistering quality, so that it set up a soreness of the skin and lungs that was very difficult to heal…. Such was the last state of... ...side submitted. ‘The danger is too great. The radiations eat into people’s skins.’ The eyebrows protested. ‘But is nothing to be done?’ ‘Nothing can b... ...rown eyes rather deeply sunken and a large resolute thin-lipped mouth. His skin was very yellow and wrinkled, and his hair iron gray. He was at all ti...

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...east, a curious spectacle. They had formed a circle round the invalid; the second notary was sitting at a table, prepared for writing, and his colleag... ...ects of my child also, as it is all occasioned by an old man relapsed into second childhood.” “What do you say?” said the count; “900,000 francs? It i... ...s, watering-pots, hung against the wall; this was all the furni- ture. The second was the man’s conventional abode, or rather sleep- ing-place; it con... ... as well as Debray, and attempting to bite him, Danglars seized him by the skin of his neck and threw him upon a couch on the other side of the room. ... ..., you would never risk your principal, which is to the speculator what the skin is 68 The Count of Monte Cristo to civilized man. We have our clothes... ...did than others, — this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin; in the same way, on retiring from business, you have nothing but your... ...n,” said Eugenie, while turning over the leaves of Ma- dame de Villefort’s album, “add that you have taken a great fancy to the young man.” “And,” sai...

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...e among the old-fashioned in the country), the bushels of pincushions, the albums they labo- riously fill, the tremendous pieces of music they practis... ... young man,” replied Morgiana haugh- tily; whereupon the youth opening the second door, and see- ing Mr. Bendigo in a flowered dressing-gown descendin... ...of Hocus Brothers, St. Swithin’s Lane; three hundred-pound shares, and the second class of the order of the Castle and Falcon, with the riband and bad... ...ty pounds, and we’ll have a writ out against him this afternoon.” And so a second writ was taken out against Captain Walker. “Y ou’ll have his wife he... ...ther after a pause; “or I’ll break every bone in your infernal scoundrelly skin!” 120 Men’s Wives Y oung Biggs looked at Berry, then at his brother, ... ... Berry. It was, “Mr. Butts, have you finished that drawing for Lady Pash’s album?” and Butts produced it; and, “Did you match the silk for me at Delil... ...on, nor a Jack-of-all-trades; you make him paint pictures for your women’s albums, and look after your upholsterer, and your canary-bird, and your mil...

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...fortune, but belonging to one of the oldest families in Brittany. When the second revolution burst on Monsieur de Fontaine he was encumbered with a la... ...ine on the King’s memory as one of the loyal servants of the Crown. At the second restoration the Count was one of those spe- cial envoys who were sen... ...ervention, his eldest son found a high and fixed position as a lawyer. The second, before the restoration a mere captain, was appointed to the command... ...arpened her pencils for the scenes she proposed to sketch in her satirical album. Sun- day could not come soon enough to satisfy her impatience. The p... ...ker was a Neapolitan duchess, whose eyes shot lightning flashes, and whose skin had the sheen of satin. The intimate terms on which Longueville affect... ...irm of Nucingen Dudley, Lady Arabella The Lily of the Valley The Magic Skin The Secrets of a Princess A Daughter of Eve Letters of T wo Brid... ... The Interdiction A Study of Woman Another Study of Woman The Magic Skin The Secrets of a Princess A Daughter of Eve The Gondreville Myst...

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...which is such a subtle perfume that it seems to enter at every pore of the skin, and whisper of the hold. Two passengers’ wives (one of them my own) l... ...g, when ever I was recommended to eat anything, an amount of anguish only second to that which is said to be en dured by the apparently drowned, in ... ...l next day. On the next afternoon, that is to say, on Saturday, the twenty second of January, an American pilot boat came alongside, and soon after w... ...ear’s board and American Notes – Dickens 32 instruction, and ten for the second. ‘After the first year,’ say the trustees, ‘an account current will ... ...he al ways pluck at those hands of his, as though he were bent on parting skin and bone? It is his humour: noth ing more. It is his humour too, to s... ...ry low in the scale of intel lectual expression. But the darkness —not of skin, but mind —which meets the stranger’s eye at every turn; the brutalizi... ...copy nor extract the remarks and poetical effusions from the registers and albums kept here.’ But for this intimation, I should have let them lie upon...

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... perfume, of sa- chet, and even—occasionally—the strong smell of damp seal-skin. Outside it was bitterly cold. All day a freezing wind had blown from ... ...d with all the eagerness of a girl who had lived for twenty-two years in a second-class town of central Mas- sachusetts, was in great distress. She ha... ...who were favoured equally of men and women. The healthiness of his eye and skin persuaded to a belief in the healthiness of his mind; and, in fact, La... ...sical type that includes Lincoln— the type of the Middle West—was almost a second father to the parentless Dearborn girls. In Massachusetts, thirty ye... ... harvest of wheat somewhere in the world for every month in the year; and, second, because the smart man who runs the corner has every other smart man... ... up and down the street at intervals, the horses and drivers housed in oil-skins. The neighborhood was quiet. There was no sound of voices in the stre... ... listening with languid interest. Aunt Wess’ turned the leaves of a family album, counting the number of photographs of Mrs. Cressler which it contain...