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...velled at its strength, in the light of the poor lady’s history: there was comedy enough in this unquench- able flame on the part of a woman who had k... ...e of her mother, and capable of seeing what a “draw” there would be in the comedy, if properly brought out, of the reversed positions of Mrs. Tramore ...

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..., Valois—the hundred great names that form the Aristoc- racy of the “Human Comedy” owe their lordly mottoes and ingenious armorial bearings. Indeed, “... ...eave the third alone with Madame de la Baudraye, that their jealousy was a comedy to the lookers-on. T o reach Saint-Thibault from Caesar’s Gate there... ... she, “has learned to live, while I have been learning to endure.” A tragi-comedy was, in fact, being enacted in Madame de la Baudraye’s house, in har... ...al life are made use of on the stage or adapted to a tale. I have seen the comedy of Tartufe played out—with the exception of the close; Orgon’s eyes ... ... the close; Orgon’s eyes could not be opened to the truth.” “And the tragi-comedy of Adolphe by Benjamin Constant is constantly enacted,” cried Louste... ... for throwing the woman over. Tired at the end of three years of playing a comedy which never can become a habit, he was perpetually concealing his we... .... Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Beaupre, Fanny A Start in Life Modeste Mignon Scenes from a C...

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...hesive stamp; nor did his perturbed and clumsy movements at all lessen the comedy of the performance. Sir John looked on with a malign enjoy- ment; an... ...ue as before?’ he asked. ‘Precisely as before,’ said she. ‘As soon as this comedy is over, I shall request the Freiherr von Gondremark to visit me. Do... ...artificial. ‘Frederic,’ she lisped, ‘you are late.’ It was a scene of high comedy, such as is proper to unhappy marriages; and her aplomb disgusted hi... ...ow put unreservedly into your hands, to ruin my dear self. O what a French comedy! You betray, I betray, they betray. It is now my cue. The letter, ye... ...times by playing on my weakness; and at times I can take plea- sure in the comedy. But not to-day: to-day you will be the true, the serious, the manly...

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...gs, nursing his un- assuming vexation, and fanning himself with his hat. A comedy father… . As a new instance of Jasper’s lunacy, I was told that he w... ... of arousing some sort of suspicion in his mind. As if with this guileless comedy father such a thing were possible! Strangely enough, the last words ... ...kirk’s back. I understood (from Jasper) that she was in the secret, like a comedy camerista. She was to accompany Freya on her irregular way to matrim...

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...tial valet, Laurent by name, as cunning a fellow as the Frontin of the old comedy, waited in the vicinity of the house inhab- ited by the unknown for ... ...could dispose of would be useful. He was about to play in that eternal old comedy which will be always fresh, and the characters in which are an old m... ... Thirteen. The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Bourignard, Gratien-Henri-Victor-Jean-Joseph Ferragus Dudley, Lo...

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...don: and Mr. Henry Esmond remained in his sick- room, where he writ a fine comedy, that his mistress pro- nounced to be sublime, and that was acted no... ... be quiet, betook himself to literature for a relaxation, and composed his comedy, whereof the prompter’s copy lieth in my walnut escritoire, sealed u... ...eth in my walnut escritoire, sealed up and docketed, “The Faithful Fool, a Comedy, as it was performed by her Majesty’s Servants.” ’Twas a very sentim... ...e impression burned one day in a rage, by Jack Lockwood, his man. All this comedy was full of bitter satiric strokes against a certain young lady. The... ...was pleased to acknowledge him from the side-box. “During the whole of the comedy she racked her brains so to remember his name that she did not hear ... ... plate, and a pearl necklace supplied to Mademoiselle Meruel of the French Comedy. ’Tis a pity such news should get abroad (and travel to England) abo...

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...s a consent, Knowing aforehand of our merriment, To dash it like a Christmas comedy: Some carry tale, some please man, some slight zany, Some mumble n... ...Jack hath not Jill: these ladies’ courtesy Might well have made our sport a comedy. FERDINAND: Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day, And then...

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...olonel Chabert “Ah ha!” said he with a laugh, “here is the last act of the comedy; now we shall see if I have been taken in!” He took up the letter an... .... Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Bonaparte, Napoleon The Vendetta The Gondreville Mystery Dome...

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...mb. ADDENDUM The following personage appears in other stories of the Human Comedy. Note: Adieu is also entitled Farewell. Granville, Vicomte de The Go...

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...than I surren- dered him. He filled his lungs, for the most part; with the comedy of his queer fate: the tragedy was in the spec- tacles through which...

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...e Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Carigliano, Marechal, Duc de At the Sign of the Cat and Racket ...

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...by his merciless satire, as Cervantes demolished chiv- alry by a narrative comedy. To understand this amazing period and the spirit which dictated its...

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...c ADDENDUM The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Finot, Andoche Cesar Birotteau A Bachelor’s Establishment A Dist...

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...he out- rage at the time, but had seemed obliging and amused, enjoying the comedy of asking Mrs. Monarch, who sat vague and silent, whether she would ...

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...” Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Taillefer, Jean-Frederic The Firm of Nucingen Father Goriot T...

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...n at the fall of a romantic drama. Veritable supernumeraries of the social comedy, Phellion, Laudigeois, and their kind, fulfilled the functions of th... ...yer; he is a schemer and we had better have him on our side. He is playing comedy—well! play com- edy with him; be his dupe apparently; if he proves t... ...e. Neither Thuillier, nor his sister, nor Theodose, were the dupes of this comedy; but the old beau of the Empire considered the manoeuvre a piece of ... ...risis and these tears were the winding up of his preceding scenes of acted comedy. “You are a child,” she said, in a gentle voice, stroking his hair s... ...ould have done without.” “Wait till it is quite dark, and we’ll play him a comedy that shall fool him finely.” Accordingly, ten minutes later, the fis... ...ith a vim that delighted the usurer, organized for the innocent porter the comedy of a monsieur who would not, out of politeness, let her accompany hi... ...-woman, of middle age, and too well trained to dress like a “soubrette” of comedy, opened the door to him. The lawyer gave his name, and the woman ush... ...he heart had entered but slightly into his life; unless we must except the comedy he had played on Flavie. We can therefore imagine the perplexity of ... ...repared with so much care, all useless; Flavie well avenged for the odious comedy he had played with her; his affairs in a worse state than they were ...

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...ellectual powers were directed to the most trifling incidents of the tragi-comedy enacted in the Rue Saint-Maur. As soon as the Countess had gone to b... ...e Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Bauvan, Comte Octave de Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Bianchon, ...

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... which happened in another; and several times already in the course of the Comedy of Human Life, this means has been employed in spite of its disadvan... ...There is no little town in France where, at a given time, the drama or the comedy of the stranger is not played. Often the stranger is an adventurer w... ...ttention. They bring upon the scene many persons already well-known in the Comedy of Human Life, and they reveal a vast number of facts neces- sary to... ...lways found pens for sale, and never have they failed to buy them; but the comedy of this affair begins with the co-arrival and the co-presence in the... ...ruin that 271 Balzac idol in her estimation.” “But there again, as in the comedy of hatred you mean to play for Monsieur de l’Estorade’s benefit, you... ...was about to leave the room, when a sudden contradiction of the countess’s comedy of indifference ap- peared in the person of Nais, who rushed in excl... ...aesiello; and in that—the part being very dramatic—she showed a talent for comedy second only to her vocal gift. It was re- ceived with truly genuine ... .... ADDENDUM The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Arthez, Daniel d’ A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Letters of ...

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... his ass,— LORD POLONIUS: The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral comical, his torical pastoral, trag... ...a! Come, some music! come, the record ers! For if the king like not the comedy, Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy. Come, some music! [...

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... that might have belonged to the open- hearted, improvident hero of an old comedy, who would have delighted in raining sugared almonds, like a new man...