The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3

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Honoré de Balzac. The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3

RELATING TO CIVIL WAR

MEDITATION XXIII

MEDITATION XXIV

MEDITATION XXV

1. OF RELIGIONS AND OF CONFESSION; CONSIDERED IN THEIR CONNECTION WITH MARRIAGE

2. OF THE MOTHER-IN-LAW

3. OF BOARDING SCHOOL FRIENDS AND INTIMATE FRIENDS

4. OF THE LOVER'S ALLIES

5. OF THE MAID

6. OF THE DOCTOR

MEDITATION XXVI

1. OF HEADACHES

2. OF NERVOUS AFFECTATIONS

1. CLASSIC NEUROSIS. 2. ROMANTIC NEUROSIS

3. OF MODESTY, IN ITS CONNECTION WITH MARRIAGE

XCII. LOVERS IGNORE MODESTY

MEDITATION XXVII

MINOTAURIC OBSERVATIONS

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XXI

LAST AXIOMS

MEDITATION XXVIII

MEDITATION XXIX

MEDITATION XXX

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The Preliminary precepts, by which science has been enabled at this point to put weapons into the hand of a husband, are few in number; it is not of so much importance to know whether he will be vanquished, as to examine whether he can offer any resistance in the conflict.

Meanwhile, we will set up here certain beacons to light up the arena where a husband is soon to find himself, in alliance with religion and law, engaged single-handed in a contest with his wife, who is supported by her native craft and the whole usages of society as her allies.

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I saw she was decided, so surrendered myself to circumstances. I began to laugh at my predicament and we became exceedingly merry. We again changed horses. The mysterious torch of night lit up a sky of extreme clearness and shed around a delightful twilight. We were approaching the spot where our tete-a-tete must end. She pointed out to me at intervals the beauty of the landscape, the tranquillity of the night, the all-pervading silence of nature. In order to admire these things in company as it was natural we should, we turned to the same window and our faces touched for a moment. In a sudden shock she seized my hand, and by a chance which seemed to me extraordinary, for the stone over which our carriage had bounded could not have been very large, I found Madame de T – in my arms. I do not know what we were trying to see; what I am sure of is that the objects before our eyes began in spite of the full moon to grow misty, when suddenly I was released from her weight, and she sank into the back cushions of the carriage.

"Your object," she said, rousing herself from a deep reverie, "is possibly to convince me of the imprudence of this proceeding. Judge, therefore, of my embarrassment!"

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