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...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...y of a custom-house permit. If need were, he was willing to in- fringe the law as to the number of passengers he might carry. In short, he possessed t... ...dows on the faubourg Saint-Denis, the building extends back through a long court-yard, at the end of which are the stables, forming a large house stan... ...e conveniences due to the progress of coach-building, instead of having to listen to perpetual com- plaints of his “sabots” (tires of enormous width),... ...a society that would never have believed in the conjugal passion of an old statesman. How happened it that from the earliest days of his marriage his ... ...g-places along the road, we will ourselves explain what were the ties that united Madame Clapart with Pierrotin, and authorized the two confidential r... ...who was said to be a rising man. At that period of our history, government clerks were apt to become persons of importance; for Napoleon was ever on t... ...wherever you go, and in all your enterprises.” Poor woman! she now had the supreme delight of seeing her son well-dressed, and she gave him a gold wat...

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... Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ther Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...them in default of better. At that time one of the rooms was tenanted by a law stu- dent, a young man from the neighborhood of Angouleme, one of a lar... ..., a frequenter of the backstairs of great houses, or had she been merely a courte- san? Was she expiating the flaunting triumphs of a youth overcrowde... ...e happiest of these hapless beings was certainly Mme. Vauquer, who reigned supreme over this hospital supported by voluntary contributions. For her, t... ...Mme. Vauquer’s magpie’s eye had discovered and read certain entries in the list of shareholders in the funds, and, after a rough calculation, was disp... ... on a vast estate, say a hundred thousand acres, somewhere in the Southern States of America. I mean to be a planter, to have slaves, to make a few sn... ...ch there is no appeal. The Minister is administratively infallible for the clerks in the employ of the Government, as the Pope is infal- lible for goo... ...he heart,” he said in a loud voice. “And when I see you, my children, thus united by a like purity and by all human affections, I say to myself that i...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Worme... ...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...res now allow themselves the luxury of a house to themselves, guarded by a courtyard on a street and protected from public curiosity by a shady garden... ...ards, would take him for the son of a man who cooked the breakfasts of the clerks 15 Balzac at a ministry and wore the livery of Louis XVI.; he resem... ...igitte and Jerome, the former being twenty-seven, the latter twenty-three, united their ex- istence. Brother and sister were bound together by an ex- ... ...t at the rate of five thousand francs a year. She granted to her sister-in-law fifty francs a month, explaining to her carefully that she herself was ... ...suits; the men defended the University; and, as a general thing, the women listened. A man of intelligence (could he have borne the dulness of these e... ...ertain to have met a client. In these quarters the justice-of-peace is the supreme au- thority; all legal contests stop short at his office, especiall... ...tely demanded in the interests of commerce, which is certainly the life of States. In any case, this view, which isn’t yours, appears to have been tha...

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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

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...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of... ...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...tis Jadwin, capitalist and speculator. Sheldon Corthell, an artist. Landry Court, broker’s clerk. Samuel Gretry, a broker. Charles Cressler, a dealer ... ... something.” But Laura, preoccupied with looking for the Cresslers, hardly listened. Aunt Wess’, whose count was confused by all these figures murmure... ...was eighteen he had cher- ished an ambition to become the President of the United States. “Yes, yes,” he said to Laura, “the bridge was turned. It was... ...hteen he had cher- ished an ambition to become the President of the United States. “Yes, yes,” he said to Laura, “the bridge was turned. It was an imp... ...ghted from basement to roof. Through the windows she could get glimpses of clerks and book-keepers in shirt- sleeves bending over desks. Every office ... ...ttle of the Street, and therein he was a being transformed, case hardened, supremely selfish, ask- ing no quarter; no, nor giving any. Fouled with the... ...ead in it. It seems terribly dry. Do you know,” he said, abruptly, “if the law was off I’d go up to Geneva Lake and fish through the ice. Laura, how w...

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on th...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual pre...

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Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad.

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