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...Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honor... ...s Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ... which daily eludes the most subtle experiment? And the inventor, alas! as will shortly be seen, has plenty of woes to endure, besides the ingratitude... ... The awakening was terrible! Postel’s bill fell due; there was no money to meet it, and Eve knew enough of the debt and its cause to give up her brida... ...ly at her, and cut her short at the first word by saying, “I know all that you must think, child, when you see that the workshop is left to itself, an... ...ut let us bear it patiently; leave me to solve the problem of which I told you, and all our troubles will be at an end.” David was so good, his devoti... ...y; leave me to solve the problem of which I told you, and all our troubles will be at an end.” David was so good, his devotion was so thoroughly to be... ...ered with you,” one of the brothers answered blandly (he was known as the “tall Cointet”). “Oh, come gentlemen! you only began your almanac after Ceri... ...came from Lucien, and this, with Cerizet’s second payment, enabled them to meet all the expenses of Mme. Sechard’s confinement. Eve and the mother and...

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...ition. Kings and princes came to perform their orbits, like stars, round Napoleon, who gave himself the pleasure of dragging all Europe in his train--a magnificent experiment in the power he afterwards displayed at Dresden. Never, as contemporaries tell us, did Paris see entertainments more superb than those which preceded and followed the sovereign?s marriage with an Aust...

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...the Duke of Omnium, who is great in those parts, and altogether held their heads up high, as provincial lawyers often do. They--the Walkers--lived in a great brick house in the middle of the town, gave dinners, to which the county gentlemen not unfrequently condescended to come, and in a mild way led the fashion in Silverbridge. ?I can never bring myself to believe it, Joh...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I a...

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...he following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the sho... ...or of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so m... ...s; and some, who have large families, how many poor children I maintained. I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel no particular interest in... ...s in this book. In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We... ...ay something, not so much concerning the Chinese and Sand wich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are said to live in New England; something ... ...ndling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it wer... ...s to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the pr... ...elt the necessity of wearing other than a travelling dress, when she went to meet the authorities, for she “was now in a civilized country, where —— —... ...d, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and began to cut down some tall arrowy white pines, still in their youth, for timber. It is difficult...