[Gutenberg 1826] • Sarrasine
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- Authors
- Balzac, Honoré de
- Publisher
- Librairie générale française
- Tags
- autobiographical fiction , classics , french fiction -- translations into english
- ISBN
- 9782253193050
- Date
- 1830-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.05 MB
- Lang
- en
They lowered their voices and walked away in order to talk more at their ease on some retired couch. Never was a more promising mine laid open to seekers after mysteries. No one knew from what country the Lanty family came, nor to what source--commerce, extortion, piracy, or inheritance--they owed a fortune estimated at several millions. All the members of the family spoke Italian, French, Spanish, English, and German.