A Start in Life
A Start in Life
by Honore de Balzac
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
DEDICATION
To Laure.
Let the brilliant mind that gave me the subject of this Scene
have the honor of it.
Her brother,
De Balzac
A START IN LIFE
CHAPTER I
THAT WHICH WAS LACKING TO PIERROTIN'S HAPPINESS
Railroads, in a future not far distant, must force certain industries
to disappear forever, and modif ...