This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...reaction; Madame de Serizy melted into tears. "I thought I had no tears left," said she with a smile. "But could you not bring Monsieur de Rubempre to wait here?" "I will try if I can find ushers to fetch him, so that he may not be seen under the escort of the gendarmes," said Monsieur de Granville. "You are as good as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...reaction; Madame de Serizy melted into tears. "I thought I had no tears left," said she with a smile. "But could you not bring Monsieur de Rubempre to wait here?" "I will try if I can find ushers to fetch him, so that he may not be seen under the escort of the gendarmes," said Monsieur de Granville. "You are as good as God!" cried she, with a gush of feeling that made her voice sound like heavenly music. "These are the women," said Comte Octave, "who are fascinating, irresistible!" And he became melancholy as he thought of his own wife. (See "Honorine.") As he left the room, Monsieur de Granville was stopped by young Chargeboeuf, to whom he spoke to give him instructions as to what he was to say to Massol, one of the editors of the "Gazette des Tribunaux." THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS Part II. THE HATED SON A SECOND HOME THE SECRETS OF THE PRINCESS OF CADIGNAN PREFACE. As has been noted in the Introduction to the first volume of the " Splendeurs et Miseres des Courtisanes," "La derniere Incarnation de Vautrin," though forming, according to the author's conception, an integral part of that work, stands in more ways than one aloof from it. It was much later written than the earlier parts, except "Ou menent les mauvais Chemins," and it was later written even than that. Moreover, it marks in two different ways a much maturer stage of the author's ideas as to heroic convicts--a stage in which, I think, it is not fanciful to detect a considerable reduction of the gigantesque element and a substitution of something else for it. We may note this in two ways. In the earlier conception of the matter, as exemplified chiefly in "Ferragus" and " La Pere ...
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