A Woman of Thirty
A Woman of Thirty
by Honore de Balzac
Translated by Ellen Marriage
DEDICATION
To Louis Boulanger, Painter.
A WOMAN OF THIRTY
I.
EARLY MISTAKES
It was a Sunday morning in the beginning of April 1813, a morning which gave promise of one of those bright days when Parisians, for the first time in the year, behold dry pavements underfoot and a cloudless sky overhead. It was not yet noon when a luxurious cabriolet, drawn by two spirited horses, turne ...