Preface
_ GOBSECK
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated By Ellen Marriage
DEDICATION
To M. le Baron Barchou de Penhoen.
Among all the pupils of the Oratorian school at Vendome, we are, I think, the only two who have afterwards met in mid-career of a life of letters--we who once were cultivating Philosophy when by rights we should have been minding our De viris. When we met, you were engaged upon your noble works on German philosophy, and I upon this study. So neither of us has missed his vocation； and you, when you see your name here, will feel, no doubt, as much pleasure as he who inscribes his work to you.--Your old schoolfellow,
1840 De Balzac. _


Part 1
_ It was one o‘clock in the morning, during the winter of 1829-30, but in the Vicomtesse de Grandlieu‘s salon two persons stayed on who did not belong to her family circle. A young and good-looking man heard the clock strike,

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