a start in life 生命的开端

A START IN LIFE 1 A START IN LIFE BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org A START IN LIFE 2 DEDICATION To Laure. Let the brilliant mind that gave me the subject of this Scene have the honor of it. Her brother, De Balzac 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org A START IN LIFE 3 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 modify several others, more especially those relating to the different modes of transportation in use around Paris. Therefore the persons and things which are the elements of this Scene will soon give to it the character of an archaeological work. Our nephews ought to be enchanted to learn the social material of an epoch which they will call the "olden time." The picturesque "coucous" which stood on the Place de la Concorde, encumbering the Cours-la-Reine,-- coucous which had flourished for a century, and were still numerous in 1830, scarcely exist in 1842, unless on the occasion of some attractive suburban solemnity, like that of the Grandes Eaux of Versailles. In 1......