Author : Honoré de Balzac
Release : 2013-09
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Download or read book La Comédie Humaine of Honoré de Balzac written by Honoré de Balzac. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1909 edition. Extrait: ... cab took everything I had.' "I told her about my sacrifices, and described the life I led; heated not with wine, as I am to-day, but by the generous enthusiasm of my heart, my passion overflowed in burning words; I have forgotten how the feelings within me blazed forth; neither memory nor skill of mine could possibly reproduce it. It was no colorless chronicle of blighted affections; my love was strengthened by fair hopes; and such words came to me, by love's inspiration, that each had power to set forth a whole life--like echoes of the cries of a soul in torment. In such tones the last prayers ascend from dying men on the battlefield. I stopped, for she was weeping. Grand Dieu! I had reaped an actor's reward, the success of a counterfeit passion displayed at the cost of five francs paid at the theatre door. I had drawn tears from her. "'If I had known 'she said. "'Do not finish the sentence, ' I broke in. 'Even now I love you well enough to murder you' "She reached for the bell-pull. I burst into a roar of laughter. "T)o not call any one, ' I said. 'I shall leave you to finish your life in peace. It would be a blundering kind of hatred that would murder you! You need not fear violence of any kind; I have spent a whole night at the foot of your bed without' '"Monsieur 'she said, blushing; but after that first impulse of modesty that even the most hardened women must surely own, she flung a scornful glance at me, and said: '"You must have been very cold.' "Do you think that I set such value on your beauty, madame, ' I answered, guessing the thoughts that moved her. Tour beautiful face is for me a promise of a soul yet more beautiful. Madame, those to whom a woman is merely a woman can...