Honoré Balzac

me. Vau­quer (née de Con­flans), who, as a mat­ter of fact, had seen forty-eight sum­mers, though she would only own to thirty-nine of them

but this au­di­ence is so ac­cus­tomed to ter­ri­ble sen­sa­tions, that only some unimag­in­able and well-neigh im­pos­si­ble woe could pro­duce any last­

he was pelted with jokes and be­la­bored with hard words.