...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...re to overhear you, these words: ‘The young man has come.’” Exupere was to start the next morning for Paris to begin the study of law. This impending ... ... very nearly exact. The architect has constructed the cottage of brilliant red brick pointed with white. The window-frames are painted of a lively gre... ...s. CHAPTER III PRELIMINARIES JEAN FRANCOIS BERNARD DUMAY, born at V annes, started as a soldier for the army of Italy in 1799. His father, president o... ...encal audacity — taking it, like many another youth, for a vocation—on the red cloth of war. On his way to the base of the army at Nice he met the Bre... ... BY in solemn stillness broken only by the cabalistic phrases of the whist-players: “Spades!” “T rumped!” “Cut!” “How are honors?” “T wo to four.” “Wh... ...ortune.” So saying, Butscha resumed his seat, remarking to the three whist-players with an assumption of calmness, “Whose deal is it?” but within his ... ...fine play at the theatre; and you don’t prefer a windmill to the church of Saint-Ouen, do you? Well then, nations are imbued with the same feel- ings ...

Excerpt: Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.