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HONORINE
1
HONORINE
by HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated By Clara Bell
DEDICATION
To Monsieur Achille Deveria
An affectionate remembrance from the Author.
If the French have as great an aversion for traveling as the English
have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient
reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found;
whereas it is excessively difficult to find the charms of France outside
France. Other countries can show admirable scenery, and they frequently
offer greater comfort than that of France, which makes but slow progress
in that particular. They sometimes display a bewildering magnificence,
grandeur, and luxury; they lack neither grace nor noble manners; but the
life of the brain, the talent for conversation, the "Attic salt" so familiar at
Paris, the prompt apprehension of what one is thinking, but does not say,
the spirit of the unspoken, which is half the French language, is nowhere
else to be met with. Hence a Frenchman, whose raillery, as it is, finds so
little comprehension, would wither in a foreign land like an uprooted tree.
Emigration is counter to the instincts......
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