In his love for the woman he had chosen Gustave Lenoble never wavered. He worked for her, he endured for her, he hoped against hope for her sake; and it was only when bodily strength failed that this nameless foot-soldier began to droop and falter in life's bitter battle. Things had gone ill with him. He had tried his fate as an advocate in Paris, in Caen, in Rouen--but clients would not come. He had been a clerk, now in one counting-house, now in another, and Susan and he had existed somehow during the seven years of their married life.
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In the days when the Bourbon reigned over Gaul, before the "simple, sensuous, passionate" verse of Alfred de Musset had succeeded the debonnaire Muse of Beranger in the affections of young France,-in days when the site of the Trocadero was a remote and undiscovered country, and the word "exposition" unknown in the Academic dictionary, and the Gallic Augustus destined to rebuild the city yet an exile,-a young law-student boarded, in common with other students, in a big dreary-looking house at the corner of the Rue Grande-Mademoiselle, abutting on the Place Lauzun, and within some ten minutes walk of the Luxembourg. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Philip Sheldon, Gustave Lenoble, Miss Halliday, Miss Paget, Captain Paget, George Sheldon, Valentine Hawkehurst, Charlotte Halliday, Tom Halliday, Diana Paget, Susan Meynell, Ann Woolper, Horatio Paget, John Haygarth, Madame Magnotte, Harold's Hill, Omega Street, Matthew Haygarth, Madame Meynell, Madelon Frehlter, Gray's Inn, Nancy Woolper, Pension Magnotte, Madame Lenoble, Stock Exchange New!
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In the days when the Bourbon reigned over Gaul, before the "simple, sensuous, passionate" verse of Alfred de Musset had succeeded the debonnaire Muse of Beranger in the affections of young France,-in days when the site of the Trocadero was a remote and undiscovered country, and the word "exposition" unknown in the Academic dictionary, and the Gallic Augustus destined to rebuild the city yet an exile,-a young law-student boarded, in common with other students, in a big dreary-looking house at the corner of the Rue Grande-Mademoiselle, abutting on the Place Lauzun, and within some ten minutes walk of the Luxembourg. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Philip Sheldon, Gustave Lenoble, Miss Halliday, Miss Paget, Captain Paget, George Sheldon, Valentine Hawkehurst, Charlotte Halliday, Tom Halliday, Diana Paget, Susan Meynell, Ann Woolper, Horatio Paget, John Haygarth, Madame Magnotte, Harold's Hill, Omega Street, Matthew Haygarth, Madame Meynell, Madelon Frehlter, Gray's Inn, Nancy Woolper, Pension Magnotte, Madame Lenoble, Stock Exchange New!
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- The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics) by Oliver Goldsmith on page 96
- Don Quixote by Milton on page 351
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