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Page 5
... close is the community of pleasures formed by the toilette , the promenade , the dividing line between a lorette of dubious morals and a marquise with none is so very slight that the most expert observer might well be misled at first ...
... close is the community of pleasures formed by the toilette , the promenade , the dividing line between a lorette of dubious morals and a marquise with none is so very slight that the most expert observer might well be misled at first ...
Page 46
... close his eyes whenever he opened his mouth , and vice versa . This unfortunate young man , with his scanty covering of skin , made one long to make an in- cision in him somewhere , a prick , anything to relieve him . He did , however ...
... close his eyes whenever he opened his mouth , and vice versa . This unfortunate young man , with his scanty covering of skin , made one long to make an in- cision in him somewhere , a prick , anything to relieve him . He did , however ...
Page 58
... close to a stable , filled all day long with the noise of horses ' hoofs and the sound of a pump always spouting , which completed the water - soaked ap- pearance of this rheumatic hole , its walls bordered half - way up by a sinister ...
... close to a stable , filled all day long with the noise of horses ' hoofs and the sound of a pump always spouting , which completed the water - soaked ap- pearance of this rheumatic hole , its walls bordered half - way up by a sinister ...
Page 60
... close his eyes . He had never before slept in a strange house , and the contrast was great between his little room lighted by a night - lamp , full of his favorite playthings , and this dark , odd - looking place in which he found ...
... close his eyes . He had never before slept in a strange house , and the contrast was great between his little room lighted by a night - lamp , full of his favorite playthings , and this dark , odd - looking place in which he found ...
Page 61
... close against his body , protruding behind his back like paws , those enor- mous convex spectacles of Doctor Hirsch , his stained and spotted overcoat , the child saw them still , and above all , ah , above all , the blue eye of the ...
... close against his body , protruding behind his back like paws , those enor- mous convex spectacles of Doctor Hirsch , his stained and spotted overcoat , the child saw them still , and above all , ah , above all , the blue eye of the ...
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Page 103 - DE L'ENFANT A SON RÉVEIL O père qu'adore mon père ! Toi qu'on ne nomme qu'à genoux! Toi, dont le nom terrible et doux Fait courber le front de ma mère! On dit que ce brillant soleil N'est qu'un jouet de ta puissance; Que sous tes pieds il se balance Comme une lampe de vermeil. On dit que c'est toi qui fais naître Les petits oiseaux dans les champs, Et qui...