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At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 1 At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2 DEDICATION To Mademoiselle Marie de Montheau 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 3 AT THE SIGN OF THE CAT AND RACKET Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hieroglyphics. For what other name could the passer-by give to the Xs and Vs which the horizontal or diagonal timbers traced on the front, outlined by little parallel cracks in the plaster? It was evident that every beam quivered in its mortices at the passing of the lightest vehicle. This venerable structure was crowned by a triangular roof of which no example will, ere long, be seen in Paris. This covering, warped by the extremes of the Paris climate, projected three feet over the roadway, as much to protect the threshold from the rainfall a......