...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Ar... ... to the great satisfaction of won- der-stricken idlers in the streets. The arrondissement of Arcis-sur-Aube then found itself in a singular position. ... ...sing revolt. In order not to compromise the influence of his family in the arrondissement of Arcis, that old statesman would doubtless propose for can... ...now who that stranger is. He’s—” “The president of a railway from Paris to Lyons, or Paris to Dijon, or from Montereau to T royes.” “That’s true,” sai...

...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

...sions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...fect’s salary only amounts to a thousand crowns, and there he stops in his arrondissement, wearing away time like the rung of a chair. I say nothing o... ...as owner of the Golden Cocoon, he was a kind of Providence in Paris to the Lyons silkweavers. Love and toilet are like color and perfume for a woman, ...

...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 presence of Gentil, the man-se...

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...arles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Documen... ... South American regiment among other odd things—but had not achieved much in any way of life, and was in debt, and in hiding. He occupied chambers of ... ...e, and was to this effect:—Let the former holder of the chambers, whose name was still upon the door and door- post, be Mr. Testator. Mr. T estator to... ...hames watermen at that time—in some unknown rat-hole by the river, down lanes and alleys on the other side of the Strand. As to any other person to me... ...Uncommercial Traveller 259 on the steps of which illustrious edifice I stood. And Mon- sieur P . Salcy, privileged director of such theatre, situate i...

...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...chinner. The re- turn from Elba came; Captain Bridau joined the Emperor at Lyons, accompanied him to the T uileries, and was appointed to the command ... ...he lottery was drawn every five days in different localities, at Bordeaux, Lyons, Lille, Strasburg, and Paris. The Paris lottery was drawn on the twen... ...nd able mag- istrates? Who, of such men, is willing to bury himself in the arrondissements, where the good to be done is without glory? 96 The Two Br... ...ve be- numbed Napoleon. As a result of this particular characteristic, the arrondissement of Issoudun was governed, in 1822, by men who all belonged t... ...lice, holding office since the Restora- tion, had relations throughout the arrondissement. More- over, not only was the influence of religion null, bu...

...r by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hat out of one hundred criminals in the depart- ment fifty belonged to the arrondissement of Montegnac. Since 1816, however, two years after a priest ... ... on foot among the hills through which the road winds between Bordeaux and Lyon. About fifteen miles from Limoges the landscape, losing the graceful f... ...ankment commands a ravine through which the post-road between Bordeaux and Lyon passes. T ravellers, either afoot or in carriages, were often stopped ... ...e bank of which runs the country road which connects the chief town of the arrondissement with the prefecture. Like all the villages of this upland pl... ...llowing the undulations of the valley, serves to mark the line between the arrondissement of Montegnac and the two estates. This barren slope supports... ...ched the junction of the high-road of Montegnac with that from Bordeaux to Lyon. The engineer was so impatient to see the land he was to reclaim, and ...

...e Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... in the Conseil General always enthusiastically demanded new roads for his arrondissement. During the dog-days he had suffered from an abscess, which ... ... side and on that, Charles 60 Madame Bovary learnt that in the Neufchatel arrondissement there was a con- siderable market town called Yonville-l’Abb... ...racter. It is there that they make the worst Neufchatel cheeses of all the arrondissement; and, on the other hand, farming is costly because so much m... ...ample, of getting up a patriotic pool for Poland or the sufferers from the Lyons floods—” “It isn’ t beggars like him that’ll frighten us,” interrupte...

...?Monsieur Roger, here is a pupil whom I recommend to your care; he?ll be in the second. If his work and conduct are satisfactory, he will go into one of the upper classes, as becomes his age.?...