Pictures of the French, a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874, Cormenin, Louis-Marie de Lahaye, vicomte de, 1788-1868 · London : W.S. Orr · leaf 207
She disposes of her ex-istence, and arranges her future destiny, according to the circumstances. Herdreams are no longer of marriage, but protection; and, as a breach has now beenbattered in her maternal affection, and its native purity despoiled by egotism,—ashenceforward her own interests have a… … THE ACTRESS S MOTHER. 141 some banker from Amsterdam or Frankfort-on-the-Maine, excessively bald andenormously corpulent. In order to make way for this ton of gold, she mustfirst get rid of the happy man of the day, M. Charles Lousteau, the author sofamous for his long black locks, and eccentric…
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