Droll Stories — Volume 2
Honoré de Balzac · English
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Droll Stories — Volume 2
Honoré de Balzac · English
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SECOND TEN TALES PROLOGUE Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he
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