Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part

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Honoré de Balzac. Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part

PREFACE

PETTY TROUBLES OF MARRIED LIFE

THE UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL

REVELATIONS

AXIOMS

THE ATTENTIONS OF A WIFE

SMALL VEXATIONS

THE ULTIMATUM

WOMEN'S LOGIC

THE JESUITISM OF WOMEN

MEMORIES AND REGRETS

OBSERVATIONS

THE MATRIMONIAL GADFLY

HARD LABOR

FORCED SMILES

NOSOGRAPHY OF THE VILLA

TROUBLE WITHIN TROUBLE

A HOUSEHOLD REVOLUTION

THE ART OF BEING A VICTIM

THE FRENCH CAMPAIGN

A SOLO ON THE HEARSE

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Is it a petty or a profound trouble? I knew not; it is profound for your sons-in-law or daughters-in-law, but exceedingly petty for you.

"Petty! You must be joking; why, a child costs terribly dear!" exclaims a ten-times-too-happy husband, at the baptism of his eleventh, called the little last newcomer, – a phrase with which women beguile their families.

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"I like it with a spring lock."

"I like it unmasked."

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