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Updated: July 26, 2025

Ask him why he knows nothing about it. He is in a bad way. I did nothing to provoke such violence, unless, perhaps, I waked up ideas by talking to him of his early amours. Who knows men? Old libertines that they are. I ought not to have shown him my arms when his eyes were glittering like carbuckles." Schmucke listened. Mme. Cibot might have been talking Hebrew for anything that he understood.

Honoré de Balzac - Poor Relations

Ask him why he knows nothing about it. He is in a bad way. I did nothing to provoke such violence, unless, perhaps, I waked up ideas by talking to him of his early amours. Who knows men? Old libertines that they are. I ought not to have shown him my arms when his eyes were glittering like carbuckles." Schmucke listened. Mme. Cibot might have been talking Hebrew for anything that he understood.

Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Pons