Extrait:Après avoir donné à Daniel une cordiale poignée de main, il le quitta, et continua son chemin le long du quai.

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Extrait:Le Wulfhof 8 éléve au sommet d'une haute colline, dans la partie la plus fertile et la plus belle de la Flandre occidentale.

Le Mal du siècle: Scènes de la vie contemporaine

Excerpt from Le Lion de Flandre, Vol. 2Mais 'a quoi sert leur résistance aux cruels assassins? Que peut la faible main d'une femme dans une lutte aussi mégale?

Le Lion de Flandre, Vol. 2

Extrait:C'est un triste aveu à faire pour notre espèce, mais il y a des gens dont la vie a été longue, et qui pour tant meurent sans avoir une seule fois contemplé le lever d'un beau jour.Date de l'édition originale de cette édition: 1857.

Le Démon de l'argent

Extrait:Le jeune homme commença à se laver la figure et les mains en grommelant. Quand il eut fini, il essaya également de nettoyer la terre et la boue qui couvraient ses habits ; mais la brosse était très usée et malgré toutes les peines qu'il se donna il ne réussit pas à faire disparaître les nombreuses taches. Il s'en plaignit amèrement et même, dans son dépit et son impatience, il jeta la brosse par terre. Il devint encore plus mécontent lorsqu'il se regarda pour la seconde fois dans la petite glace. Il paraissait terriblement laid avec son linge chiffonné, ses habits malpropres, ses yeux pleins de sang, ses joues tirées, blêmes et jaunes.

Argent et Noblesse

The story of The Poor Gentleman is one of the series in which M. Conscience has delineated various grades of female character in positions of trial. In The Village Innkeeper he has shown the weaker traits of woman distracted between an inborn sense of propriety and a foolish ambition for high, life. In The Conscript his heroine displays the nobler virtues of uncorrupted humble life; and, with few characters, taken from the lowest walks, he shows the triumph of honest, straightforward earnestness and pertinacious courage, even when they are brought in conflict with authority. The Poor Gentleman closes the series; and, selecting a heroine from the educated classes of his country-people M. Conscience has demonstrated how superior a genuine woman becomes to all the mishaps of fortune, and how successfully she subdues that imaginary fate before which so many are seen to fall.Excerpt 1:Near the end of July, 1842, an open caleche might have been seen rolling along one of the three highways that lead from the frontiers of Holland toward Antwerp. Although the vehicle had evidently been cleaned with the utmost care, everything about it betokened decay. Its joints were open, discolored, and weather-beaten, and it swung from side to side on its springs like a rickety skeleton. Its patched leathers shone in the sunshine with the oil that had been used to freshen them, but the borrowed lustre could not hide the cracks and repairs with which they were defaced. The door-handles and other parts of the vehicle that were made of copper had been carefully polished, and the vestiges of silver-plating, still visible in the creases of the ornaments, denoted a former richness which had been almost entirely worn out by time and use. The caleche was drawn by a stout, heavy horse, whose short and lumbering gait intimated very clearly that he was oftener employed in the plough and cart than in carrying his owner toward the capital."Excerpt 2:As Monsieur De Vlierbeck entered Antwerp, where he knew he would be an object of notice, he assumed a jaunty, self-satisfied air. Anyone seeing him which might have deceived into believing him the happiest man on earth . . . even while he suffered from the profoundest agony.He was, he feared, about to suffer abject humiliation. This would cut him to the very heart! But there was a being in the world whom he loved better than his life or honor -- his only child, his daughter. For her, how frequently had he sacrificed his pride -- how frequently had he suffered the pangs of martyrdom!

Le Gentilhomme pauvre

L'histoire du fils d'un agriculteur, qui est tiré au sort pour effectuer son service militaire et qui est trop pauvre pour acheter sa liberté. Il devient aveugle à cause du manque d'hygiène et les conditions misérables dans l'armée. Sa petite amie, cependant, ne l'abandonne pas.

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La fiancée du maître d'école

Extrait:La loi de nos pères était ferme comme ces l1lq s murailles qui, bleu que sillonnées par de profondes crévasses et couronnées d'une sauvage verdure, ont traversé les siècles et sont encore debout malgré les orages et le soufﬂe de la tempête..

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