THE NOVELS
OF
HONORÉ de BALZAC
NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME
COMPLETELY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
URSULE MIROUËT
BY MAY TOMLINSON
WITH FIVE ETCHINGS BY RICARDO DE LOS RIOS AFTER
PAINTINGS BY ÉDOUARD TOUDOUZE
IN ONE VOLUME
PRINTED ONLY FOR SUBSCRIBERS BY
GEORGE BARRIE & SON, PHILADELPHIA
COPYRIGHTED, 1897, BY G. B. & SON
It is a real pleasure, my dear niece, to dedicate to you a book, the subject and details of which have gained the hard-earned approval of a young girl who, as yet, knows nothing of the world and does not compromise with any of the lofty principles of a pious education. You young girls are a formidable public; for you ought to be allowed to read only books that are as pure as your minds, and you are forbidden certain literature as you are prevented from seeing society such as it is. May not an author therefore take pride in having pleased you? God grant that fondness has not deceived you! Who can say? That future which, I trust, you may see, and which may no longer behold
Your uncle
De Balzac.
PART FIRST
the frightened heirs
PART SECOND
the minoret inheritance
Copyrighted 1897 by G. B. & Son
THE NEMOURS DILIGENCE
Savinien was the first to awaken. He then noticed Ursule with the disordered head caused by the jolting; the cap was crumpled, turned up; the unrolled plaits fell on both sides of her face, flushed with the heat of the carriage; but, in this situation, which would be dreadful for women who depend upon toilette, youth and beauty triumph.
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