Essential Novelists - Honoré de Balzac

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Оноре де Бальзак. Essential Novelists - Honoré de Balzac

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Father Goriot

A Woman of Thirty

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

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The demon of luxury gnawed at his heart, greed burned in his veins, his throat was parched with the thirst of gold.

He had a hundred and thirty francs every quarter. His father, mother, brothers, sisters, and aunt did not spend two hundred francs a month among them. This swift comparison between his present condition and the aims he had in view helped to benumb his faculties.

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