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A Ball part 7
At last my quadrille came. The band played the symphony, and the dancers hastened to seek their partners. My heart almost burst from my...
A Ball part 6
Unfortunately, I was engaged. What would I not have given at that moment had a courier entered to call away my dancer!
“Perhaps the next...
A Ball part 5
“Ah, mamma, why, officers are not allowed to marry in time of war,” I reminded her, laughing.
On this, she scolded me still more, called...
A Ball part 4
I showed him the room, and without the slightest consideration as to whether it was proper to wake them, after being two whole days...
A Ball part 3
“Indeed,” I exclaimed, “it must have been very uncomfortable to have been obliged to sleep on a divan, or even in a camp-bed for...
A Ball part 2
As I was left quite alone, I thought the best thing I could do was to lay out the table with every sort of...
A Ball part 1
Maurus Jokai (1825-1904)
Jokai is the most famous of all Hungarian novelists. It has been said that “if all the persons whom he has called...
Creole Democracy part 1
Venezuela
Rufino Blanco-Fombona (1874-1944)
Blanco-Fombona was born at Caracas, in Venezuela, in 1874. He came of an old and aristocratic family of Spanish descent. His extraordinary...
The Virtuous Daughter-In-Law part 7
The mortgagee, suspecting it was the same money that had been offered him by Erh-ch`eng, cut the pieces in halves, and saw that it...
The Virtuous Daughter-In-Law part 6
Shan-hu was the next to go, and she found the hole full of silver bullion; and then Ta-ch`eng repaired to the spot and saw...
