Father Goriot

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Honoré de Balzac. Father Goriot

Father Goriot

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Translated by Ellen Marriage

FATHER GORIOT

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The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy

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Honoré de Balzac

Published by Good Press, 2019

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After dinner the two widows went together up to Mme. Vauquer’s room, and had a snug little chat over some cordial and various delicacies reserved for the mistress of the house. Mme. Vauquer’s ideas as to Goriot were cordially approved by Mme. de l’Ambermesnil; it was a capital notion, which for that matter she had guessed from the very first; in her opinion the vermicelli maker was an excellent man.

“Ah! my dear lady, such a well-preserved man of his age, as sound as my eyesight—a man who might make a woman happy!” said the widow.

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