The Country Doctor
The Country Doctor
by Honore de Balzac
Translated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell
"For a wounded heart--shadow and silence."
To my Mother.
CHAPTER I
THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE MAN
On a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a valle ...