Here is one who mends by nicely biting, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

At this frightful story, Zemire throws himself at Azor's feet, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

I was ignominiously arrested, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Pierre François Godard, Honoré de Balzac

His son, who looked like him in every way ..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, Honoré de Balzac

As soon as I set foot on the island..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

Here, the civet offers a hit of snuff to an old beaver, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac

She responded to my protests and oaths with a tone of mockery so cold that I swore to die, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

And yet we add that, outside the theater, these animals are even more ugly, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Pierre François Godard, Honoré de Balzac

The favorite object of his studies is the collection of Idylles by Madame Deshoulières, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Joseph Hippolyte Jules Caqué, Honoré de Balzac

We live between ourselves, we hate the nuisances and the visits, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, Honoré de Balzac

My new master, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, Honoré de Balzac

I ordinarily opened the ball with the prettiest villager, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Joseph Hippolyte Jules Caqué, Honoré de Balzac

I hope to prove one day that in the hands of a magpie, a feather is no less valuable than in the claws of a wolf or the legs of a fox, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac