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The Letters of Honoré De Balzac to Madame Hanska; Born Countess Rzewuska, Afterwards Madame Honoré De Balzac, 1833-1846
The Letters of Honor De Balzac to Madame Hanska Born Countess Rzewuska Afterwards Madame Honor De Balzac 1833-1846 Author:Honoré de Balzac General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Little, Brown Subjects: Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / French Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of ... more »this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV. LETTERS DURING 1836. Cn u.1.01, , Jiinn, in 18, 1836. In spite of my entreaty, your letter, which I received to-day, after nearly one mouth's interregnum, is neither dated nor numbered; so that it is impossible to answer each other understandingly at such a distance. Your letter contains two reproaches which have keenly affected me; and I think I have already told you that a few chance expressions would suffice to make me go to Wierzchownia, which would be a misfortune in my pres- ent perilous situation ; but I would rather lose everything than lose a true friendship. In the first place, as for letters, count up those that you have written me, and my replies; the balance will be much in my favour. When you speak of the rarity of my letters you make me think that some must be lost, and I feel uneasy. In short, you distrust me at a distance, just as you distrusted me near by, without any reason. I read quite despairingly the paragraph of your letter in which you do the honours of my heart to my mind, and sacrifice my whole personality to my brain. I laughed much at your reckoning of my work by quantity, not quality. I laughed, because I thought of your analytical forehead; I laughed, because I thought that at the moment when I was reading those falsely accusing pages, you, perhaps, were holding in your hand" Se'raphita " and making me in the depths of your heart some honourable amends. Ah! cam, if you were in the secret of those work- sessions, which begin at midnight and end at midday, if ...« less