Balkan

When the wall was about half-way up, the sly workman took advantage of a moment when the Count`s back was turned, to strike a...

The Count had lately had all the ceilings of his reception rooms on the ground floor repaired. Plaster of Paris is difficult to obtain...

At these words Madame de Merret turned a haggard gaze upon her husband.“Here, take your crucifix,” he added. “Swear to me before God that...

His unmistakable step resounded under the vaulted corridor. At the moment that the Count turned the handle of his wife`s door, he fancied he...

One morning I said to Rosalie: “Tell me all you know about Madame de Merret.”“Oh!” she replied in terror, “do not ask that of...

After exchanging a few more words with me, my landlady left me a prey to vague and gloomy thoughts, to a romantic curiosity, and...

After that, one of our stable-men told us that in the evening when he led the horses to the water, he thought he had...

“Sir,” she said, “when the Emperor sent the Spanish prisoners of war and others here, the Government quartered on me a young Span¬iard who...

An arbor is still visible, or rather the ddbris of an arbor, where there is a table that time has not quite destroyed. The...

Honore De Balzac (1799-1850)Born at Tours in 1799, Balzac left his native city at an early age and after various attempts at making a...