A Woman of Thirty

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Honoré de Balzac. A Woman of Thirty

A Woman of Thirty

Table of Contents

I. EARLY MISTAKES

II. A HIDDEN GRIEF

III. AT THIRTY YEARS

IV. THE FINGER OF GOD

V. TWO MEETINGS

VI. THE OLD AGE OF A GUILTY MOTHER

PARIS, 1828–1844

ADDENDUM

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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“To please me!” cried her father, with a start of surprise. “To please me, child? when you will not hear the voice that upbraids you so tenderly very much longer! But I have always heard children impute personal motives for the sacrifices that their parents make for them. Marry Victor, my Julie! Some day you will bitterly deplore his ineptitude, his thriftless ways, his selfishness, his lack of delicacy, his inability to understand love, and countless troubles arising through him. Then, remember, that here under these trees your old father’s prophetic voice sounded in your ears in vain.”

He said no more; he had detected a rebellious shake of the head on his daughter’s part. Both made several paces towards the carriage which was waiting for them at the grating. During that interval of silence, the young girl stole a glance at her father’s face, and little by little her sullen brow cleared. The intense pain visible on his bowed forehead made a lively impression upon her.

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