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...ted by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of t... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell To Henri de Ba... ...ars of Louis XVIII.’s reign as years of service. Some days later he 4 The Ball at Sceaux further received, without any solicitation, ex officio, the ... ...are ruin- ous in effect. He was—to quote the wittiest and most suc- 6 The Ball at Sceaux cessful of our diplomates—one of the faithful five hundred w... ...f wearying the monarch’s benevolence. It occurred to him to mention 8 The Ball at Sceaux only one by one, these virgins eager to light their torches.... ...ne else dwelt in a sphere so lofty as to be able to understand the 10 The Ball at Sceaux merits of her soul; and a pride based no less on her birth t... ...ighty— a hundred thousand francs a year? Such advantageous matches 12 The Ball at Sceaux were not to be met with every day for girls without a por- t... ...hree suitors, she rushed into the festivities of the winter season, and to balls, where her keen eyes criticised the celebrities of the day, delighted...

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.... On seeing him smile, Dominique added: “I am a foreigner, but I can put a ball in an apple at five hundred meters. There is my hunting gun behind you... ...iers posted around the mill and the Prussians hidden behind the trees. The balls whistled above the Morelle without damaging either side. The fusil l... ...like the claws of a chicken just killed. The little soldier had received a ball full in the breast. He was the first man slain. Instinctively Francois... ... contraction. “Move away,” said the captain. “Y ou are within range of the balls.” 12 Zola At that moment a sharp little thud was heard in the old el... ...ars. Then the siege began. For more than an hour the mill was riddled with balls. They dashed against the old walls like hail. When they struck the st... ...ey could take aim. From time to time the captain consulted his watch. As a ball broke a shutter and plowed into the ceiling he said to himself: “Four ... ...m; she was seated behind a huge oaken clothespress, which protected her. A ball, however, struck the clothespress, the sides of which gave forth a hol... ...er shutter was shattered, and through the gaping opening of the window the balls entered. Two soldiers rolled upon the floor. One of them lay like a s... ...gging his comrades to finish him, but they paid no atten tion to him. The balls entered in a constant stream; each man took care of himself and strov...

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...ts. If she’s a thing of the air, in short— say at once a great seamed silk balloon—I never myself got into her car. I was her choice.” It had really, ... ...Mrs. Stringham mused as she once more sat alone with a hooked needle and a ball of silk, the “fine” work with which she was always provided—this mysti... ...grass. Here were benches and smutty sheep; here were idle lads at games of ball, with their cries mild in the thick air; here were wanderers anxious a...

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...uce to market continue the stir of carriages re- turning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sus- tained pause in the grand symphony of P... ... hear us. Come, 7 Balzac Birotteau, speak up. What is it?” “We can give a ball.” “Give a ball! we? On the word of an honest woman, you are dreaming, ... ...“Oh! then,” said Madame Birotteau, much moved, “of course we must give the ball, my good friend. But what have you done to merit the cross?” “Yesterda... ...er behind your counter? Y ou have been there, thank God, a long time. This ball shall be our fete,—yours and mine. Good-by to economy,—for your sake, ... ... to play; you have associates who may be much cleverer than you. Give your ball, remodel the house, spend ten thousand francs if you like,—it is usele... ...e invention like poverty upon the world. Hey! hey! Mignonne! how about the ball? I am not wicked, but I should like to meet that little scamp du Tille... ...opportunely at certain times, and inter- fere with a lady’s projects for a ball; it refreshes and re- vives the color by opening or shutting the pores... ...arming Cesarine playing a sonata of Steibelt’s on the piano, and singing a ballad; or when he found her writing the French language correctly, or read... ...in the evening very elegantly dressed, came home late, and was seen at the balls of bankers and notaries. Such habits displeased Cesar, according to w...

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...ntering the salon?” “Yes, what of her?” “I met her, three days ago, at the ball of the Neapolitan ambassador, and I am passionately in love with her. ... ...e taste. Let us vote.” “Let us vote!” cried all my guests. I have each two balls, one white, one red. The white, sym- bol of virginity, was to forbid ... ...red. The white, sym- bol of virginity, was to forbid the marriage; the red ball sanc- tioned it. I myself abstained from voting, out of delicacy. My f... ...ere seventeen in number; nine was therefore the majority. Each man put his ball into the wicker basket with a narrow throat, used to hold the numbered... ...all into the wicker basket with a narrow throat, used to hold the numbered balls when card-players draw for their places at pool. We were all roused t... ...ces at pool. We were all roused to a more or less keen curiosity; for this balloting to clarify morality was certainly original. Inspection of the bal... ...y original. Inspection of the ballot-box showed the presence of nine white balls! The result did not surprise me; but it came into my heard to count t... ...ainful experience; I might lose the heart of a girl who loves society, and balls, and personal adornment, and me for the time being. Some slim and jau...

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...phants shot under me, and carried away Scindiah’s nose- ring with a pistol-ball. Wellesley is a Duke and a Marshal, I but a simple Major of Irregulars... ...ked by his tall Majors, Thrupp and Gutch, he looked like a stumpy skittle- ball between two attenuated skittles. The plump little Colonel received me ... ...et Gahagan . . . Ensign Hicks, of the Sappers and Miners. Hicks received a ball in his jaw, and was half choked by a quantity of carroty whisker force... ...lf choked by a quantity of carroty whisker forced down his throat with the ball. 2. Captain Macgillicuddy, B.N.I. Cornet Gahagan. I was run through th... ... his second duel as well as in his first; as it was, the civilian placed a ball and a part of Mac’s gold re- peater in his stomach. A remarkable circu... ... home to the “Philosophi- cal Transactions:” the surgeon had extracted the ball, and was going off, thinking that all was well, when the gold repeater... ...f it, I paused nervously for a moment, and then said— “Bobbachy, consomah, ballybaloo hoga.” The black ruffians took the hint, and retired. “Colonel a... ...eceived me with the greatest distinction. Fancy my surprise, on going to a ball at Government House, to meet my old friend Jowler; my trembling, blush... ...ter luck to you next time, O’Gawler!” As I spoke the words—whish!—a cannon-ball cut the tum- bler clean out of my hand, and plumped into poor O’Gawler...

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...ut your sword through him. As for me, I must take measures to carry on the ball if our unseen adversaries choose to open it.” The Chouan paid no atten... ...l the two others, who had gone to the right, should reappear. “Perhaps the ball will open over there,” he said to his officers, pointing to the woods ... ... just beyond Mortagne. My son came very near being killed; he received two balls in his hat while protecting me.” “Is it possible, madame? were you in... ...ad armed herself with a travelling-dress more dangerous, perhaps, than any ball-room attire. Its simplicity had precisely that attraction which comes ... ...very near being killed,” said Madame du Gua, quickly; “my son received two balls in—” “Where are your papers?” asked Hulot, not listening to the mothe... ...he carriage came within range of these shadows a volley of mus- ketry, the balls of which whistled above their heads, warned the travellers that the s... ...to the ideas she had formed of the French trooper who hums a tune when the balls are whistling, and jests when a comrade falls. Gerard was more imposi... ...d the Chouan, “and I sha’n’t give you yours. Ave Maria!” He fired, and the ball passed through his victim’s head. The captain fell. When Francine reac... ... a musket at her. But a shot which woke the echoes of the mountains, and a ball that whistled past her warned Mademoiselle de V erneuil of her rival’s...

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...ffers from the intense heat of the salons—a state of things not unusual at balls. “Monsieur de Lanty has not owned this house very long, has he?” “Oh,... ...time, the appearance of an extraordinary personage at the fetes, concerts, balls, and routs given by the countess. It was a man. The first time that h... ...ting ends of the sash. I had brought that young woman to Madame de Lanty’s ball. As it was her first visit to that house, I forgave her her stifled la... ...g, loving, and jealous. “Until to-morrow,” she said to me, as she left the ball about two o’clock in the morning. “I won’t go,” I thought. “I give up.... ...e Peralta and the Pedro-Ximenes. There were fascinating du- ets, Calabrian ballads, Spanish sequidillas, and Neapolitan canzonettes. Drunkenness was i...

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...old man called them his Saint Cecilias. The two Maries were not taken to a ball until they were sixteen years of age, and then only four times a year ... ...know from the mere movement of their lips the words they uttered. Even the ball- dresses of these poor little things were piously irreproach- able; th... ...hted the eye when their hus- bands requested them to wear low dresses to a ball, on which occasion they both felt a pleasing shame, which made them fi... ...o return at a certain hour. Instead of giving orders, I receive them. At a ball, at the theatre, a servant comes to me and says: ‘Madame’s carriage is... ... assurance was given that she was clever and witty. On their return from a ball, concert, or rout where Marie had shone brilliantly, she would turn to... ...e Saint-Heren, laughing. When she was not at some diplomatic rout, or at a ball given by rich foreigners, like Lady Dudley or the Princesse Galathionn... ...londet, who was standing by. “Lady Dudley is going to ask you to her grand ball, that you may meet the pretty countess.” Raoul and Blondet went off wi... ...of Raoul had given her. The count and countess went to Lady Dudley’s grand ball, where, by the bye, de Marsay appeared in society for the last time. H... ...s incomprehensible. Vandenesse and his wife again met Raoul Nathan at this ball, which was remarkable for the meeting of several per- sonages of the p...

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...ation that are happily to be found at the end of every week. There was Mr. Balls, the great grocer of South Audley Street, a warm man, who, they say, ... ... “What hair,” said he, “what eyes the girl has! they’re as big as billiard-balls; and five thousand pounds. Eglantine’s in luck! five thousand pounds—... ...as brief and stern in conversations; and he always went to masquerades and balls in a field-marshal’s uniform. “He looks really quite the thing to-nig... ...nt,” hiccupping. “Such hair!—such eye- brows!—such eyes! like b-b-billiard-balls, by Jove!’ 22 Men’s Wives CHAPTER II. IN WHICH MR. W ALKER MAKES THR... ...mour some further particulars regarding the young lady with the bil- liard-ball eyes. It was for the very same reason, too, that he had made the attem... ... her confusion together with her lovely face. Sweet Morgiana! the billiard-ball eyes had a tremendous effect on the Captain. They fell plump, as it we... ...atin neck- cloth embroidered with butterflies and ornamented with a brandy-ball brooch, a light shawl waistcoat, and a rhubarb- coloured coat of the s... ... then sinks gently to the ground as though he were carried off by a cannon-ball. He served a lady hopposite Hapsley ‘Ouse so one day, and since then I... ...peror” stone dead in the middle of the road, as if carried off by a cannon-ball. Fancy the situation, ye callous souls who laugh at the misery of huma...

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...etween the foundation stones of this erection, which is topped by a spiked ball (what an idea!), hang flowering plants, blue or yellow according to th... ...iend Vermichel, the miller of Soulanges, to village weddings and the grand balls given at the Tivoli of Soulanges. Vermichel’s name was Michel Vert, b... ...hat scoundrel Rigou is ruining, I’d have long ago paid his bill with other balls than the poor fellow gives him.” “Right enough, too,” replied Fourcho... ... “Look here!” said Mam Tonsard to Vermichel, “when are the notices for the ball at Soulanges coming out? Here it is the eighth of August.” “I took the... ...ughtn’t to have feelings which belong only to rich folks. If you go to the ball of Soulanges at Tivoli and dance with her, you’ll dance higher than yo... ...his way; be rough with them in return and the effect produced is that of a balloon collapsed by a prick. Such was Sibilet. But as most men are not obs... ...ved his wife, his hourly thought was: “I have made a mistake; I have three balls and chains, but I have only two legs. I ought to have made my fortune... ...ighborhood.” On hearing these words the general sprang back as if a cannon-ball had struck him; then he looked at Sibilet with a shrewd, diplomatic ey... ...ould undertake to watch your woods as they ought to be watched would get a ball in his head for wages in some dark corner of the forest—” “Coward!” cr...

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...fifteen, appearances were mending; she began to curl her hair and long for balls; her complexion improved, her features were softened by plumpness and... ..., who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base- ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of four... ...pend on it. Mrs. Allen was so long in dressing that they did not enter the ballroom till late. The season was full, the room crowded, and the two ladi... ...ight, and she began, for the first time that evening, to feel herself at a ball: she longed to dance, but she had not an acquaintance in the room. Mrs... ...“Well, Miss Morland,” said he, directly, “I hope you have had an agreeable ball.” “Very agreeable indeed,” she replied, vainly endeavouring to hide a ... ...t are you thinking of so ear- nestly?” said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; “not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, you... ...o in perfecting a sudden intimacy between two young ladies: such as dress, balls, flirtations, and quizzes. Miss Thorpe, however, being four years old... ... a very decided advantage in discussing such points; she could compare the balls of Bath with those of Tunbridge, its fashions with the fashions of Lo... ...ssem- blies; neither at the Upper nor Lower Rooms, at dressed or undressed balls, was he perceivable; nor among the walkers, the horsemen, or the curr...

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...he’s a mighty fine man, and reminds me of me cousin, Dan Malony (Malony of Ballymalony, my dear, you know who mar’ied Ophalia Scully, of Oystherstown,... ...rt comboined, for the horrud old Colonel, with a head as bald as a cannon- ball, was making sheep’s eyes at a half-caste girl there. Mrs. Magenis, tho... ...ut kenal boats; my dear! Y e should see the kenal boats between Dublin and Ballinasloe. It’s there the rapid travelling is; and the beautiful cattle. ... ...gy O’Dowd, whom it con- cerned as well as another, went on prattling about Ballinafad, and the horses in the stables at Glenmalony, and the clar’t dru... ...n full view of the jealous opera-glass opposite. And when the time for the ballet came (in which there was no dancer that went through her grimaces or... ...ancing and feasting, as it were, up to the very brink of battle. A certain ball which a noble Duchess gave at Brussels on the 15th of June in the abov... ...riod, that the talk and interest of persons of their own sex regarding the ball was much greater even than in respect of the enemy in their front. The... ...s and ornaments of all sorts for Amelia, drove to the 35 Thackeray famous ball, where his wife did not know a single soul. After looking about for La... ...ehaved very handsomely in getting her new clothes, and bringing her to the ball, where she was free to amuse herself as she liked. Her thoughts were n...

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...nkles about the eyes that vary in their expression from the set smile of a ballet-dancer to the dark, suspicious scowl of a discounter of bills; in sh... ... woman, as the toilette is her tin- sel. If the delightful excitement of a ball had made the pale face glow with color; if the delights of a luxurious... ... ing to see her father, came shortly afterwards in the evening. She wore a ball dress, and came in a carriage. “Four of them!” commented Mme. Vauquer ... ... letter to Mme. de Beauseant. The Vicomtesse replied by an invitation to a ball for the following evening. This was the position of affairs at the Mai... ...r at the end of November 1819. A few days later, after Mme. de Beauseant’s ball, Eugene came in at two o’clock in the morning. The persevering stu- de... ... had done some- times on former occasions, after a fete at the Prado, or a ball at the Odeon, splashing his silk stockings thereby, and ruin- ing his ... ...about your adventure!” demanded M. Vautrin. “Yesterday evening I went to a ball given by a cousin of mine, the Vicomtesse de Beauseant. She has a magn... ...nt had not been there, my divine countess would have been the queen of the ball; none of the younger men had eyes for any one else. I was the twelfth ... ...ncing.” “So the wheel turns,” said Vautrin; “yesterday night at a duchess’ ball, this morning in a money-lender’s office, on the lowest rung of the la...

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... This amusing document, contains some fifty or sixty veri table accounts of balls of fire that fell into churchyards and upset the sporters, and spor... ...s field they played in; and that it was he who had pur chased stumps, bats, ball, and all! It is such scenes as this, I would see near London, on a S... ...should be heard on all sides, but the sharp stroke of the bat as it sent the ball skimming along the ground, the clear ring of the quoit, as it struck...

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...mmense cannon are perpetually looking, surrounded by plantations of cannon-balls and beds of bomb-shells, sufficient, one would think, to blow 29 Tha... ...e-parties are seen winding up the hill, and busy about the endless cannon- ball plantations; awkward squads are drilling in the open spaces:sentries m... ...te romantic:it is too dark to see the dust on the dried leaves; the cannon-balls do not intrude too much, but have subsided into the shade; the awkwar... ...he darkness—all through the mysterious zig-zags, and round the dark cannon-ball pyra- 30 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo mids, and al... ...ghty-four-pounders may disappear from the Alameda, and the crops of cannon-balls which now grow there may give place to other plants more pleasant to ... ...ub” flourishes now, has ever seen anything more romantic than the pleasant balls held in the great room there. The Church of St. John, not a handsome... ...ng at one wharf, and piles of melons much bigger than the Gibraltar cannon-balls at another. It was the fig-season, and we passed through several alle... ...u are drowned in lather:you can’t see, the suds are frothing over your eye-balls; you can’t hear, the soap is whiz- zing into your ears; can’t gasp fo... ...ave so been exalted in the Lebanon. AT NIGHT CAPTAIN LEWIS gave a splendid ball and supper to the “Trump. ”We had the “Trump’s” band to perform the mu...

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...on the upper landing for what might happen, and never was gunpowder cannon-balls or shells or rock- ets more dreaded than that dreadful letter was by ... ...c- est of all his many skirmishes with a musical instrument representing a ball-room I do not know in what particular country and company waltzing in ...

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...t of this month a French general will be killed by a random shot of a cannon-ball. On the 6th a fire will break out in the suburbs of Paris, which wil... ...gainst walls and posts. Petticoats will not be burdensome to the clergy; but balls and assemblies will be indecent for some time. As for you, coquette...

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... more extraordinary than the invitations he receives occasionally to court balls) his name and fame, mentioned so often for the last sixteen years by ... ...nner, and will re- turn about three o’clock to dress, if she dances in the ballet this evening—as she will, to-day being Monday. This rat is already a... ...p on brandy—but it killed her in the end. Another thing! You have seen the ballet, and you’ll now see it defiling past you in its every-day clothes, w... ... where they want danseuses; she has not succeeded in the three towns where ballets are given; she has not had the money, or perhaps the desire to go t... ... a rat who becomes a marcheuse,—that is to say, an ordinary figurante in a ballet,—must have some solid at- tachment which keeps her in Paris: either ... ...nfluential in the Chamber of Deputies.” “And above these two rounds in the ballet ladder what comes next?” asked Gazonal. “Look!” said his cousin, poi... ... ministry would have one more journalistic enemy on its back. The corps de ballet is a great power; consequently it is considered better form in the u... ...pay when they bought. The next day but one she appeared at an ambassador’s ball, dressed to please all the world and some one in particular. That day ... ... in this way?” said Bixiou to Giraud. “No, while they are voting by secret ballot we have come out for a little air,” replied Giraud. “How did the pri...

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...then making a thumb mark on a glass strip, following it with the mark of the ball of each finger in succession. Under this row of faint grease prints ... .... Sometimes he copied on paper the involved and delicate pattern left by the ball of the finger, and then vastly enlarged it with a pantograph so that... ...so as to get a little coating of the natural oil on them, and then press the balls of them on the glass. A fine an delicate print of the lines in the ... ... the insides of the hands and the soles of the feet. If you will look at the balls of your fingers—you that have very sharp eyesight—you will ob serv... ...ight now, and his head canted to one side, and was minutely scrutinizing the balls of his fingers; there were whispered ejaculations of “Why, it’s so—... ...s fellow twin’s patters—the jury will find that the patterns upon the finger balls of the twins’ hands follow this rule. [An examination of the twins’... ... The stillness gives warning that something is coming. All palms and finger balls went down now, all slouching forms straightened, all heads came up,...