Part 1
_ Title: Honorine
Author: Honore de Balzac
Translated By: Clara Bell
DEDICATION
To Monsieur Achille Deveria
An affectionate remembrance from the Author.
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HONORINE
If the French have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found； whereas it is excessively difficult to find the charms of France outside France. Other countries can show admirable scenery, and they frequently offer greater comfort than that of France, which makes but slow progress in that particular. They sometimes display a bewildering magnificence, grandeur, and luxury； they lack neither grace nor noble manners； but the life of the brain, the talent for conversation, the "Attic salt" so familiar at Paris, the prompt apprehension of what one is thinking, but does not say, the spirit of the unspoken, which is half the French language, is nowhere e

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