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...ill equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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...c Classics Series Publication The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a publication of the Pennsy... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. K... ...onic transmission, in any way. The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...se perfect quiet charms superior men. The life of this essentially thrifty people amply fulfils the conditions of happiness which the masses desire as... ... saying, takes three steps backward to one for- ward; while its trade with India poured into it the grotesque designs of China and the marvels of Japa... ...twithstanding the parcelling out of their territory, the Flemings became a people homogeneous through their pipes and beer.* After assimilating, by co... ...Ghent, and Western Flanders, capital Bruges, are two provinces of Belgium. French Flanders, capital Lille, is the Departement du Nord of France. Douai... ...Horn, the Prince of Aremberg, the Spanish ambassador, Helvetius, and other Frenchmen originally from Belgium, or coming lately thence, whose birth or ...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Penn... ... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ... of the ill-concealed evi- dence of the most cruel misery there is—that of people in decent society? I have kept shop, and I know. There is no eye so ... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...oted, too, that she was gifted with great good sense—the good sense of the people, which made her education sound. In 26 Cousin Betty society she spo... ...t is for two sous’ worth of polish on your boots that I love you? For your india-rubber belt, your strait-waist- coat, and your false hair? And then, ... ...,” said Hortense. And a thousand suspicions cropped up in her mind, as, in India, tall, rank plants spring up in a night-time. BY THE END OF THREE WEE...

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...Excerpt: Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife ad...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Louis Lambert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Louis Lambert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James ... ...ll. At that time Monsieur Saint-Martin, Monsieur de Gence, and a few other French or half German writers were almost the only persons in the French Em... ...e truth, he would confess that, in later life, an Academician of the great French Academy seemed to him far less remarkable than the stupen- dous boy ... ...idols are conceived? And are not the super- natural beings before whom the people tremble the personi- fication of their feelings and their magnified ... ...s of thin, white hair. Like the Obi of the Negroes, or the Sagamore of the Indian savages, he was a sort of oracle, consulted on impor- tant occasions... ... was borrowed both from the Hebrew Scriptures and from the sacred Books of India, adapted after their own fash- ion by the beauty-loving Hellenes. “It... ... character of the primitive ideas of that horde called by its lawgiver the people of God, no doubt to secure its unity, and perhaps also to induce it ...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...ley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...d customs. The tradition of this splendor still lives in the memory of the people,—as in Brittany, where the native char- acter allows no forgetfulnes... ...d varnished leather caps are as distinct from one another as the castes of India, and still recognize the distance that parts them from the bourgeoisi... ...he du Guaisnics. Old as the granite of Brittany, the Guaisnics are neither Frenchmen nor Gauls,—they are Bretons; or, to be more ex- act, they are Cel... ...crossed to Ireland, faithful to the ancient Breton hatred for England. The people of Guerande feigned utter ignorance of the baron’s existence. In the... ...t officers of the old navy. He had won the confidence of de Suffren in the Indian Ocean, and the friend- ship of the Comte de Portenduere. His splendi... ..., the literature of the dead languages, and to a very restricted choice of French writers. When, at sixteen, he began what the Abbe Grimont called his...

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...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. ...

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...The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Pr... ...ated me then and thenceforth to glory, that priest- ess who slaughters the Frenchmen of to-day as the Druidess once sacrificed the Gauls. Suddenly I m... ...m, even when I saw him at his worst in after days. The natural gaiety of a Frenchman and a T ourangean soon deserted him; he became morose, fell ill, ... ...Here I draw upon myself the storms I fear may break upon my children or my people; and in doing so I feel a something I cannot explain, which gives me... ...her Madame la duchesse, and to speak to her in the third person. The young people of the present day have lost these polite manners; you must learn th... ...g of this dark secret I know nothing. I study it as I would the form of an Indian weapon, the symbolic construc- tion of which is known only to the Br... ...f I left her she would kill herself. I have heard her praise the custom of Indian widows who burn themselves upon their husband’s grave. “In India tha...

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...shed by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design....

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...Preface: Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor among themselves never to betray one another even if their int...

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...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...ic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ka... ...Companionism (to coin a word) still exists in France 6 Ferragus among the people. Its traditions, powerful over minds that are not enlightened, and o... ...habit, to the tribe, whose strag- gling members she feeds and lodges. This people, ever mov- ing and changing, though controlled by immutable customs,... ...heless, not a single clean corner, so complying is she to the vices of the French nation! Who has not chanced to leave his home early in the morning, ... ...ore likely; but, as an officer of rank in the cavalry, he belonged to that French arm which demands rapidity in its conquests and derives as much vani... ...se who have reached the last degree of wretchedness, he thought of how, in India, the law ordained that widows should die; he longed to die. He was no...

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...Excerpt: There is a special variety of human nature obtained in the Social Kingdom by a process analogous to that of the gardener?s craft in the Vegetable Kingdom, to wit, by the forcing-house--a species of hybrid which can be raised neither from seed nor from slips. This product is kn...

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...Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, ... ...r will be hardly obtainable for money. Still, certain it is that there are people who are fit for nothing but to be cashiers, just as the bent of a ce... ...crat to wear shabby clothes. But, unluckily, it is easy to find penny-wise people who will prove weak, wasteful, or incompetent in the capital things ... ...im in an enve- lope, and helped himself to five hundred thousand francs in French and English bank-notes from the safe, which he locked. Then he put e... ...Melmoth Reconciled acting with such ludicrous effect, nor hear the English-French that had filled the house with roars of laughter; instead of all thi... ...self, Castanier could travel in a few mo- ments over the fertile plains of India, could soar on the wings of demons above African desert spaces, or sk...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Pro and con monsieur de manerville, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The...

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...The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Pre... ... youth would eventually secure to him that aristocratic pre-eminence which Frenchmen will for- ever desire. He found some slight compensations for the... ...ent the next six years away from Bordeaux. At first he was attached to the French embassy at Naples; after that he was secretary of legation at Madrid... ...ntly before his mind. “Marriage,” he said to himself, “is disagreeable for people without means, but half its troubles disappear before wealth.” Every... ...tact of continual intimacy, which, of course, does not exist between young people before they marry, and will never exist so long as our present socia... ...u my Natalie.” “Give me, give me?” said the young girl, waving a screen of Indian feathers, “what are you whispering about me?” “I was telling her,” r... ...trac, save my income, and part with her diamonds, but I would rather go to India and work for a fortune than tear my Natalie from the life she enjoys....