...The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State El... ...The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...onic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...c Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Kath... ...lf at some enormous distance from Paris,—in lower Brittany or the wilds of Canada. Silence has perhaps its own degrees. Godefroid, already penetrated ... ...ime; he brought a whole region out of wretchedness into prosperity, out of irreligion into Christianity, out of barbarism into civiliza- tion.* The na...

...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspec...