These arrangements and this new happiness shed some balm upon the count's sore mind. The presence of the Duchesse de Lenoncourt at Clochegourde was a great event to the neighborhood. I reflected gloomily that she was a great lady, and the thought made me conscious of the spirit of caste in the daughter which the nobility of her sentiments had hitherto hidden from me. Who was I--poor, insignificant, and with no future but my courage and my faculties?
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To what genius fed on tears shall we some day owe that most touching of all elegies,-the tale of tortures borne silently by souls whose tender roots find stony ground in the domestic soil, whose earliest buds are torn apart by rancorous hands, whose flowers are touched by frost at the moment of their blossoming? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Madame de Mortsauf, Monsieur de Mortsauf, Lady Dudley, Monsieur de Chessel, Abbe Dominis, Monsieur Origet, Monsieur Lepitre, Monsieur Deslandes, Due de Lenoncourt, Madame de Chessel, Comte de Mortsauf, Middle Ages, Lady Brandon New!
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To what genius fed on tears shall we some day owe that most touching of all elegies,-the tale of tortures borne silently by souls whose tender roots find stony ground in the domestic soil, whose earliest buds are torn apart by rancorous hands, whose flowers are touched by frost at the moment of their blossoming? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dear valley, old huntsman, dear count Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Madame de Mortsauf, Monsieur de Mortsauf, Lady Dudley, Monsieur de Chessel, Abbe Dominis, Monsieur Origet, Monsieur Lepitre, Monsieur Deslandes, Due de Lenoncourt, Madame de Chessel, Comte de Mortsauf, Middle Ages, Lady Brandon New!
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- The Jealousies of a Country Town by Honoré de Balzac in Back Matter
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