Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230091365
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis La Comedie Humaine Volume 6 by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book La Comedie Humaine Volume 6 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...of the entail do not pay this loan as quickly as I now expect, you and I will settle on my return. The sum I ask for is absolutely necessary to enable me to seek my fortune in India; and if I know you, I shall receive it in Bordeaux the night before I sail. I have acted as you would have acted in my place. I held firm to the last moment, letting no one suspect my ruin. Before the news of the seizure of my property at Bordeaux reached Paris, I had attempted, with one hundred thousand francs which I obtained on notes, to recover myself by play. Some lucky stroke might still have saved me. I lost. How have I ruined myself? By my own will, Henri. From the first month of my married life I saw that I could not keep up the style in which I started. I knew the resu