Old, broken, haggard, whimsical, yet good, yet dedicated, and domestic by temperament, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

This old court apparently has an old falcon..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, 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

The studies are painful, expensive; but the students are intrepid, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

Having said that, this poor invalid gives us a curtsy, and goes hobbling off, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

He was a regular on the front lines..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

There are men who walk around begging on fertile ground, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

The further we go, the less we penetrate the horrible mystery of which the unfortunate toad was a victim, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

To pay the landlord, a very harsh man, whose name was M. Vautour, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

The Proprietor, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

I left as the Attorney-General of Moinraux in Paris, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

My hero was good at hanging, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, 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