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Ça fait du bien de causer avec un homme qui n'a qu'une tête. JULES VALLÈS - Et le misérable est mort comblé de biens, tel qu'il a vécu. Il n'eut pas même l'excuse d'être un dissipateur, un prodigue. Il était, dit-on, le premier du monde pour placer avantageusement...
Chapter III The three last named stood by the bed; the aunts austere, the transgressor softly sobbing. The mother turned her head on the pillow; her tired eyes flamed up instantly with sympathy and passionate mother-love when they fell upon her child,...
Chapter IV Twelve days later. Mother and child were lingering in the grip of the hideous disease. Of hope for either there was little. The aged sisters looked white and worn, but they would not give up their posts. Their hearts were breaking, poor old...
Chapter V After a little, both aunts were laboring upon a difficult and baffling work in Helen's chamber. Patiently and earnestly, with their stiff old fingers, they were trying to forge the required note. They made failure after failure, but they improved...
At the dark and melancholy period when Don Roderick the Goth and his chivalry were overthrown on the banks of the Guadalete, and all Spain was overrun by the Moors, great was the devastation of churches and convents throughout that pious kingdom. The...
Forty years had passed and gone, since the period of this miracle. The subjugation of Spain was complete. The Moors lorded it over city and country; and such of the Christian population as remained, and were permitted to exercise their religion, did it...
At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches on the eastbound B. & M. express. In one coach there sat a very pretty young woman dressed in elegant taste and surrounded by all the luxurious comforts of an experienced traveler. Among the...
My quiet residence in the country, aloof from fashion, politics, and the money market, leaves me rather at a loss for important occupation, and drives me to the study of nature, and other low pursuits. Having few neighbors, also, on whom to keep a watch,...
O vertige de la penderie béante sur l'alignement militaire des pelures incertaines aux senteurs naphtalines... Je hais les cintres. Le cintre agresse l'homme. Par pure cruauté. Le cintre est le seul objet qui agresse l'homme par pure cruauté. Le cintre...
Assis dans un large fauteuil près de la cheminée, les coudes aux genoux, les mains tendues au feu, il parlait d’une voix lente, s’arrêtant brusquement pour murmurer : « Oui… oui… », comme s’il avait eu besoin de reconnaître ses souvenirs et d’approuver...
Chapter VI Daily the child sank lower and steadily lower towards the grave, and daily the sorrowing old watchers carried gilded tidings of her radiant health and loveliness to the happy mother, whose pilgrimage was also now nearing its end. And daily...
Si on pouvait habiter dans une patinoire, c'est là que je vivrais. Ou que j'aurais vécu, plus exactement. Longtemps, j'ai adoré le hockey sur glace. Il a bercé ma jeunesse, bariolé mon existence, adouci mes jours. Ce jeu m'a bluffé, dérouté, ému, enthousiasmé....
Chapter VIII Another day dawned, and grew, and spread its sunshine in the earth. Aunt Hannah brought comforting news to the failing mother, and a happy note, which said again, "We have but a little time to wait, darling mother, then se shall be together."...
Three persons were sitting in a salon whose one large window overlooked the Place Vendôme. M. Dorine, with his back half turned on the other two occupants of the apartment, was reading the Journal des Débats in an alcove, pausing from time to time to...
M. Dorine, muffled in his cloak, threw himself on the back seat of the landau, too abstracted in his grief to observe that he was the only occupant of the vehicle. There was a sound of wheels grating on the gravelled avenue, and then all was silence again...
A Stagecoach Romance "I'll cross it though it blast me!"--Hamlet It was a rainy Sunday in the gloomy month of November. I had been detained, in the course of a journey, by a slight indisposition, from which I was recovering; but was still feverish, and...
One morning as I was passing through Boston Common, which lies between my home and my office, I met a gentleman lounging along The Mall. I am generally preoccupied when walking, and often thread my way through crowded streets without distinctly observing...
On a tous, un jour ou l’autre de notre existence, eu le désir de changer de vie. Je ne parle pas de situations subies qui, tout à coup, viennent modifier le cours de notre vie : un rendez-vous chez le médecin où l’on est entré confiant – pour ne pas dire...
