Letters of Two Brides

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Honoré de Balzac. Letters of Two Brides

FIRST PART

I. LOUISE DE CHAULIEU TO RENEE DE MAUCOMBE. PARIS, September

II. THE SAME TO THE SAME November 25th

III. THE SAME TO THE SAME December

IV. THE SAME TO THE SAME December 15th

V. RENEE DE MAUCOMBE TO LOUISE DE CHAULIEU October

VI. DON FELIPE HENAREZ TO DON FERNAND PARIS, September

VII. LOUISE DE CHAULIEU TO RENEE DE MAUCOMBE

VIII. THE SAME TO THE SAME January

IX. MME. DE L'ESTORADE TO MLLE. DE CHAULIEU. December

X. MLLE. DE CHAULIEU TO MME. DE L'ESTORADE January

XI. MME. DE L'ESTORADE TO MLLE. DE CHAULIEU La Crampade

XII. MLLE. DE CHAULIEU TO MME. DE L'ESTORADE February

XIII. MME. DE L'ESTORADE TO MLLE. DE CHAULIEU LA CRAMPADE, February

XIV. THE DUC DE SORIA TO THE BARON DE MACUMER MADRID

XV. LOUISE DE CHAULIEU TO MME. DE L'ESTORADE March

XVI. THE SAME TO THE SAME March

XVII. THE SAME TO THE SAME April 2nd

XVIII. MME. DE L'ESTORADE TO LOUISE DE CHAULIEU April

XIX. LOUISE DE CHAULIEU TO MME. DE L'ESTORADE

XX. RENEE DE L'ESTORADE TO LOUISE DE CHAULIEU May

XXI. LOUISE DE CHAULIEU TO RENEE DE L'ESTORADE June

XXII. LOUISE TO FELIPE

XXIII. FELIPE TO LOUISE

XXIV. LOUISE DE CHAULIEU TO RENEE DE L'ESTORADE October

XXV. RENEE DE L'ESTORADE TO LOUISE DE CHAULIEU

XXVI. LOUISE DE MACUMER TO RENEE DE L'ESTORADE March

XXVII. THE SAME TO THE SAME October

XXVIII. RENEE DE L'ESTORADE TO LOUISE DE MACUMER December

XXIX. M. DE L'ESTORADE TO THE BARONNE DE MACUMER December 1825

XXX. LOUISE DE MACUMER TO RENEE DE L'ESTORADE January 1826

XXXI. RENEE DE L'ESTORADE TO LOUISE DE MACUMER

XXXII. MME. DE MACUMER TO MME. DE L'ESTORADE March 1826

XXXIII. MME. DE L'ESTORADE TO MME. DE MACUMER

XXXIV. MME. DE MACUMER TO THE VICOMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE April 1826

XXXV. THE SAME TO THE SAME MARSEILLES, July

XXXVI. THE VICOMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE TO THE BARONNE DE MACUMER

XXXVII. THE BARONNE DE MACUMER TO THE VICOMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE Genoa

XXXVIII. THE VICOMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE TO THE BARONNE DE MACUMER

XXXIX. THE BARONNE DE MACUMER TO THE VICOMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE

XL. THE COMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE TO THE BARONNE DE MACUMER January 1827

XLI. THE BARONNE DE MACUMER TO THE VICOMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE Paris

XLII. RENEE TO LOUISE

XLIII. MME. DE MACUMER TO THE COMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE

XLIV. THE SAME TO THE SAME Paris, 1829

XLV. RENEE TO LOUISE

XLVI. MME. DE MACUMER TO THE COMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE 1829

XLVII. RENEE TO LOUISE 1829

SECOND PART

XLVIII. THE BARONNE DE MACUMER TO THE COMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE October 15, 1833

XLIX. MARIE GASTON TO DANIEL D'ARTHEZ October 1833

L. MME. DE L'ESTORADE TO MME. DE MACUMER

LI. THE COMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE TO MME. MARIE GASTON 1835

LII. MME. GASTON TO MME. DE L'ESTORADE The Chalet

LIII. MME. DE L'ESTORADE TO MME. GASTON

LIV. MME. GASTON TO THE COMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE May 20th

LV. THE COMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE TO MME. GASTON July 16th

LVI. MME. GASTON TO THE COMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE

LVII. THE COMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE TO THE COMTE DE L'ESTORADE THE CHALET,

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Sweetheart, I too am free! And I am the first too, unless you have written to Blois, at our sweet tryst of letter-writing.

Raise those great black eyes of yours, fixed on my opening sentence, and keep this excitement for the letter which shall tell you of my first love. By the way, why always "first?" Is there, I wonder, a second love?

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My father-in-law to be has, you see, no castle, only a simple country house, standing beneath one of our hills, at the entrance of that noble valley, the pride of which is undoubtedly the Castle of Maucombe. The building is quite unpretentious: four pebble walls covered with a yellowish wash, and roofed with hollow tiles of a good red, constitute the grange. The rafters bend under the weight of this brick-kiln. The windows, inserted casually, without any attempt at symmetry, have enormous shutters, painted yellow. The garden in which it stands is a Provencal garden, enclosed by low walls, built of big round pebbles set in layers, alternately sloping or upright, according to the artistic taste of the mason, which finds here its only outlet. The mud in which they are set is falling away in places.

Thanks to an iron railing at the entrance facing the road, this simple farm has a certain air of being a country-seat. The railing, long sought with tears, is so emaciated that it recalled Sister Angelique to me. A flight of stone steps leads to the door, which is protected by a pent-house roof, such as no peasant on the Loire would tolerate for his coquettish white stone house, with its blue roof, glittering in the sun. The garden and surrounding walks are horribly dusty, and the trees seem burnt up. It is easy to see that for years the Baron's life has been a mere rising up and going to bed again, day after day, without a thought beyond that of piling up coppers. He eats the same food as his two servants, a Provencal lad and the old woman who used to wait on his wife. The rooms are scantily furnished.

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