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  • But it's not her back door she heard, it's old Mrs. Hanski next door, letting her dog out.

    Whatever Lyla Wants Lynn Beighley 2011

  • Count Hanski, this event taking place towards the close of the year.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • Balzac himself praised the conduct of the entire Hanski family.

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • In the early spring of 1833, the Hanski family, after no doubt many preparations, and surrounded by a great paraphernalia -- for travelling in those days was a serious matter -- started on the journey about which

    Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

  • The husband of M.dame Hanska, M. Wenceslas de Hanski, who was never a count, but a very rich man, was many years her senior, and suffered from "blue devils" and paresis a long time before his death.

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • The tone of Balzac's letters to his relations at this time has been adversely criticised, and it is true that the reader is sometimes irritated by the frequency of his requests for service from them, and his continual insistence on the wonderful perfections of the Hanski family, and their grandeur and importance.

    Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

  • Fortunately, in October, 1835, the Hanski family returned to Wierzchownia, and the constant worry to

    Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

  • Balzac travelled about a little with the Hanski family, and remained with them till September 15th, when he was obliged to go back to

    Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

  • Still there were innumerable stoppages, and doubt where the precious canvas was located; till the impatient Balzac was only deterred from his intention of starting a lawsuit against the authorities, by a fear of bringing the noble name of Hanski into notoriety.

    Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

  • Balzac wrote of her as "Madame Hanska," and to her husband he referred as "Monsieur Hanski," a distinction that was made by the author as inference that Monsieur Hanska was encroaching on some one else's domain, with designs on the pickle-jar of another.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Elbert Hubbard 1885

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