Melmoth Reconciled by Honoré de Balzac
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Melmoth Reconciled
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Title: Melmoth Reconciled
Author: Honore de Balzac
Translator: Ellen Marriage
Release Date: April 3, 2005 [EBook #1277]
Language: English
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MELMOTH RECONCILED
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated by Ellen Marriage
To Monsieur le General Baron de Pommereul, a token of the friendship between our fathers, which survives in their sons.
DE BALZAC.
There is a special variety of human nature obtained in the Social Kingdom by a process analogous to that of the gardener's craft in the Vegetable Kingdom, to wit, by the forcing-house--a species of hybrid which can be raised neither from seed nor from slips. This product is known as the Cashier, an anthropomorphous growth, watered by religious doctrine, trained up in fear of the guillotine, pruned by vice, to flourish on a third floor with an estimable wife by his side and an uninteresting family. The number of cashiers in Paris must always be a problem for the physiologist. Has any one as yet been able to state correctly the terms of the proportion sum wherein the cashier figures as the unknown _x_? Where will you find the man who shall live with wealth, like a cat with a caged mouse? This man, for further qualification, sha