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The Novels of Honore de Balzac: The House of Nucingen, The Secrets of La Princesse de Cadignan, The Involuntary Comedians, Sarrasine, Facino Cane, A Man of Business (Classic Reprint)
The Novels of Honore de Balzac The House of Nucingen The Secrets of La Princesse de Cadignan The Involuntary Comedians Sarrasine Facino Cane A Man of Business - Classic Reprint Author:Honore De Balzac You are acquainted with the thinness of the partitions which separate the little apartments, the cabinets partictlliers, in the most elegant restaurants in Paris. In that of Very, for instance, the largest room is cut in two by a partition which is removed and restored at will. This scene is not laid there, but in a good locality. which it is no... more »t convenient for me to desigrate. There were two of us. I will say, then, like the Prudhomme of Henry Monnier; "I would not wish to compromise her." We were lingering over the delicacies of a dinner, admirable in many respects, in a little apartment, in which we were conversing in low tones, having due regard for the lack of thickness of the partition. We had progressed as far as the roast without having had any neighbors in the apartment adjoining ours, in which we heard only the crackling of the fire. Eight o'clock sounded. There was a great noise of feet, the sound of words exchanged, the waiters brought candles. It was
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