Identifier: worksbalzac17balz (find matches)
Title: (Works)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933
Subjects:
Publisher: Saint Louis : Thompson Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
my glory, my life ? Gertrude (aside)This is a mere trick; she knows nothing. (Aloud) This isa clever stratagem, but I never wrote a single line. Whatyou say is not true. It is impossible. Where are the letters ? PaulineThey are in my possession. GertrudeIn your room ? PaulineThey are where you can never reach them. Gertrude (aside)Madness with its wildest dreams spins through my brain!My fingers itch for murder. It is in such moments as thisthat men kill each other! How gladly would I kill her! MyGod ! do not forsake me! Leave me my reason!—(Aloud)Wait a moment. Pauline (aside)My thanks to you, Ferdinand I I see how much you loveme; I have been able to pay back to her all the wrongs shedid us a short time ago—and—she shall save us from all wefeared! Gertrude (aside)She must have them about her,—but how can I be sure ofthat? Ah! (Aloud) Pauline! If you have had these lettersfor long, you must have known that I was in love with Fer-dinand. You can only lately have received them.
Text Appearing After Image:
Gertrude.—Pauline, child, give him up, and you will learn what a devoted slaveyou will have in me ! You will have more than a mother, more than afriend; you will have the unstinted lielp of a soul that is lost. Oh! listen tome ! (Gertrude and Pauline) TRE STEPMOTHER iOi PaulineThey came into my hands this morning. GertrudeXou have not read them all? PaulineEnough to find out that they would ruin you. GertrudePauline, life is just beginning for you, (A hiocJc is heard.)Ferdinand is the first man, young, well educated and dis-tinguished, for he is distinguished, by whom you have beenattracted; but there are many others in the world such as heis. Ferdinand has been in a certain sense under the sameroof with you, and you have seen him every day; the first im-pulses of your heart have therefore directed you to him. Iunderstand this, and it is quite natural. Had I been in yourplace I should doubtless have experienced the same feelings.But, my dear, you know not the ways either of the worl

Note About Images