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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1373 ***
+
+STUDY OF A WOMAN
+
+
+By Honore De Balzac
+
+
+
+Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
+
+
+
+
+                             DEDICATION
+
+                To the Marquis Jean-Charles di Negro.
+
+
+
+
+
+STUDY OF A WOMAN
+
+
+The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been
+brought up in the spirit of the Restoration. She has principles, she
+fasts, takes the sacrament, and goes to balls and operas very elegantly
+dressed; her confessor permits her to combine the mundane with sanctity.
+Always in conformity with the Church and with the world, she presents
+a living image of the present day, which seems to have taken the word
+"legality" for its motto. The conduct of the marquise shows precisely
+enough religious devotion to attain under a new Maintenon to the gloomy
+piety of the last days of Louis XIV., and enough worldliness to adopt
+the habits of gallantry of the first years of that reign, should it ever
+be revived. At the present moment she is strictly virtuous from policy,
+possibly from inclination. Married for the last seven years to the
+Marquis de Listomere, one of those deputies who expect a peerage, she
+may also consider that such conduct will promote the ambitions of her
+family. Some women are reserving their opinion of her until the moment
+when Monsieur de Listomere becomes a peer of France, when she herself
+will be thirty-six years of age,--a period of life when most women
+discover that they are the dupes of social laws.
+
+The marquis is a rather insignificant man. He stands well at court; his
+good qualities are as negative as his defects; the former can no more
+make him a reputation for virtue than the latter can give him the sort
+of glamor cast by vice. As deputy, he never speaks, but he votes RIGHT.
+He behaves in his own home as he does in the Chamber. Consequently, he
+is held to be one of the best husbands in France. Though not susceptible
+of lively interest, he never scolds, unless, to be sure, he is kept
+waiting. His friends have named him "dull weather,"--aptly enough, for
+there is neither clear light nor total darkness about him. He is like
+all the ministers who have succeeded one another in France since the
+Charter. A woman with principles could not have fallen into better
+hands. It is certainly a great thing for a virtuous woman to have
+married a man incapable of follies.
+
+Occasionally some fops have been sufficiently impertinent to press the
+hand of the marquise while dancing with her. They gained nothing in
+return but contemptuous glances; all were made to feel the shock of that
+insulting indifference which, like a spring frost, destroys the germs of
+flattering hopes. Beaux, wits, and fops, men whose sentiments are fed
+by sucking their canes, those of a great name, or a great fame, those of
+the highest or the lowest rank in her own world, they all blanch before
+her. She has conquered the right to converse as long and as often as she
+chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable, without being entered on
+the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish women are capable of following
+a plan of this kind for seven years in order to gratify their fancies
+later; but to suppose any such reservations in the Marquise de Listomere
+would be to calumniate her.
+
+I have had the happiness of knowing this phoenix. She talks well; I know
+how to listen; consequently I please her, and I go to her parties. That,
+in fact, was the object of my ambition.
+
+Neither plain nor pretty, Madame de Listomere has white teeth, a
+dazzling skin, and very red lips; she is tall and well-made; her foot
+is small and slender, and she does not put it forth; her eyes, far from
+being dulled like those of so many Parisian women, have a gentle glow
+which becomes quite magical if, by chance, she is animated. A soul
+is then divined behind that rather indefinite form. If she takes an
+interest in the conversation she displays a grace which is otherwise
+buried beneath the precautions of cold demeanor, and then she is
+charming. She does not seek success, but she obtains it. We find that
+for which we do not seek: that saying is so often true that some day
+it will be turned into a proverb. It is, in fact, the moral of this
+adventure, which I should not allow myself to tell if it were not
+echoing at the present moment through all the salons of Paris.
+
+The Marquise de Listomere danced, about a month ago, with a young man as
+modest as he is lively, full of good qualities, but exhibiting, chiefly,
+his defects. He is ardent, but he laughs at ardor; he has talent, and he
+hides it; he plays the learned man with aristocrats, and the aristocrat
+with learned men. Eugene de Rastignac is one of those extremely clever
+young men who try all things, and seem to sound others to discover what
+the future has in store. While awaiting the age of ambition, he scoffs
+at everything; he has grace and originality, two rare qualities because
+the one is apt to exclude the other. On this occasion he talked for
+nearly half an hour with madame de Listomere, without any predetermined
+idea of pleasing her. As they followed the caprices of conversation,
+which, beginning with the opera of "Guillaume Tell," had reached the
+topic of the duties of women, he looked at the marquise, more than once,
+in a manner that embarrassed her; then he left her and did not speak to
+her again for the rest of the evening. He danced, played at ecarte, lost
+some money, and went home to bed. I have the honor to assure you that
+the affair happened precisely thus. I add nothing, and I suppress
+nothing.
+
+The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself
+up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man
+glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery.
+The heavier the body from its weight of sleep, the more active the mind.
+Rastignac finally got up, without yawning over-much as many ill-bred
+persons are apt to do. He rang for his valet, ordered tea, and drank
+immoderately of it when it came; which will not seem extraordinary to
+persons who like tea; but to explain the circumstance to others, who
+regard that beverage as a panacea for indigestion, I will add that
+Eugene was, by this time, writing letters. He was comfortably seated,
+with his feet more frequently on the andirons than, properly, on the
+rug. Ah! to have one's feet on the polished bar which connects the two
+griffins of a fender, and to think of our love in our dressing-gown is
+so delightful a thing that I deeply regret the fact of having neither
+mistress, nor fender, nor dressing-gown.
+
+The first letter which Eugene wrote was soon finished; he folded and
+sealed it, and laid it before him without adding the address. The second
+letter, begun at eleven o'clock, was not finished till mid-day. The four
+pages were closely filled.
+
+"That woman keeps running in my head," he muttered, as he folded this
+second epistle and laid it before him, intending to direct it as soon as
+he had ended his involuntary revery.
+
+He crossed the two flaps of his flowered dressing-gown, put his feet
+on a stool, slipped his hands into the pockets of his red cashmere
+trousers, and lay back in a delightful easy-chair with side wings, the
+seat and back of which described an angle of one hundred and twenty
+degrees. He stopped drinking tea and remained motionless, his eyes fixed
+on the gilded hand which formed the knob of his shovel, but without
+seeing either hand or shovel. He ceased even to poke the fire,--a vast
+mistake! Isn't it one of our greatest pleasures to play with the fire
+when we think of women? Our minds find speeches in those tiny blue
+flames which suddenly dart up and babble on the hearth. We interpret as
+we please the strong, harsh tones of a "burgundian."
+
+Here I must pause to put before all ignorant persons an explanation of
+that word, derived from a very distinguished etymologist who wishes his
+name kept secret.
+
+"Burgundian" is the name given, since the reign of Charles VI., to those
+noisy detonations, the result of which is to fling upon the carpet
+or the clothes a little coal or ember, the trifling nucleus of a
+conflagration. Heat or fire releases, they say, a bubble of air left in
+the heart of the wood by a gnawing worm. "Inde amor, inde burgundus."
+We tremble when we see the structure we had so carefully erected between
+the logs rolling down like an avalanche. Oh! to build and stir and play
+with fire when we love is the material development of our thoughts.
+
+It was at this moment that I entered the room. Rastignac gave a jump and
+said:--
+
+"Ah! there you are, dear Horace; how long have you been here?"
+
+"Just come."
+
+"Ah!"
+
+He took up the two letters, directed them, and rang for his servant.
+
+"Take these," he said, "and deliver them."
+
+Joseph departed without a word; admirable servant!
+
+We began to talk of the expedition to Morea, to which I was anxious to
+be appointed as physician. Eugene remarked that I should lose a great
+deal of time if I left Paris. We then conversed on various matters, and
+I think you will be glad if I suppress the conversation.
+
+When the Marquise de Listomere rose, about half-past two in the
+afternoon of that day, her waiting-maid, Caroline, gave her a letter
+which she read while Caroline was doing her hair (an imprudence which
+many young women are thoughtless enough to commit).
+
+"Dear angel of love," said the letter, "treasure of my life and
+happiness--"
+
+At these words the marquise was about to fling the letter in the fire;
+but there came into her head a fancy--which all virtuous women will
+readily understand--to see how a man who began a letter in that style
+could possibly end it. When she had turned the fourth page and read it,
+she let her arms drop like a person much fatigued.
+
+"Caroline, go and ask who left this letter."
+
+"Madame, I received it myself from the valet of Monsieur le Baron de
+Rastignac."
+
+After that there was silence for some time.
+
+"Does Madame intend to dress?" asked Caroline at last.
+
+"No--He is certainly a most impertinent man," reflected the marquise.
+
+I request all women to imagine for themselves the reflections of which
+this was the first.
+
+Madame de Listomere ended hers by a formal decision to forbid her porter
+to admit Monsieur de Rastignac, and to show him, herself, something
+more than disdain when she met him in society; for his insolence far
+surpassed that of other men which the marquise had ended by overlooking.
+At first she thought of keeping the letter; but on second thoughts she
+burned it.
+
+"Madame had just received such a fine love-letter; and she read it,"
+said Caroline to the housemaid.
+
+"I should never have thought that of madame," replied the other, quite
+surprised.
+
+That evening Madame de Listomere went to a party at the Marquis de
+Beauseant's, where Rastignac would probably betake himself. It was
+Saturday. The Marquis de Beauseant was in some way a connection of
+Monsieur de Rastignac, and the young man was not likely to miss coming.
+By two in the morning Madame de Listomere, who had gone there solely for
+the purpose of crushing Eugene by her coldness, discovered that she was
+waiting in vain. A brilliant man--Stendhal--has given the fantastic name
+of "crystallization" to the process which Madame de Listomere's thoughts
+went through before, during, and after this evening.
+
+Four days later Eugene was scolding his valet.
+
+"Ah ca! Joseph; I shall soon have to send you away, my lad."
+
+"What is it, monsieur?"
+
+"You do nothing but make mistakes. Where did you carry those letters I
+gave you Saturday?"
+
+Joseph became stolid. Like a statue in some cathedral porch, he stood
+motionless, entirely absorbed in the labors of imagination. Suddenly he
+smiled idiotically, and said:--
+
+"Monsieur, one was for the Marquise de Listomere, the other was for
+Monsieur's lawyer."
+
+"You are certain of what you say?"
+
+Joseph was speechless. I saw plainly that I must interfere, as I
+happened to be again in Eugene's apartment.
+
+"Joseph is right," I said.
+
+Eugene turned and looked at me.
+
+"I read the addresses quite involuntarily, and--"
+
+"And," interrupted Eugene, "one of them was _not_ for Madame de
+Nucingen?"
+
+"No, by all the devils, it was not. Consequently, I supposed, my dear
+fellow, that your heart was wandering from the rue Saint-Lazare to the
+rue Saint-Dominique."
+
+Eugene struck his forehead with the flat of his hand and began to laugh;
+by which Joseph perceived that the blame was not on him.
+
+Now, there are certain morals to this tale on which young men had better
+reflect. _First mistake_: Eugene thought it would be amusing to
+make Madame de Listomere laugh at the blunder which had made her the
+recipient of a love-letter which was not intended for her. _Second
+mistake_: he did not call on Madame de Listomere for several days after
+the adventure, thus allowing the thoughts of that virtuous young woman
+to crystallize. There were other mistakes which I will here pass over in
+silence, in order to give the ladies the pleasure of deducing them, "ex
+professo," to those who are unable to guess them.
+
+Eugene at last went to call upon the marquise; but, on attempting to
+pass into the house, the porter stopped him, saying that Madame la
+marquise was out. As he was getting back into his carriage the Marquis
+de Listomere came home.
+
+"Come in, Eugene," he said. "My wife is at home."
+
+Pray excuse the marquis. A husband, however good he may be, never
+attains perfection. As they went up the staircase Rastignac perceived
+at least a dozen blunders in worldly wisdom which had, unaccountably,
+slipped into this page of the glorious book of his life.
+
+When Madame de Listomere saw her husband ushering in Eugene she could
+not help blushing. The young baron saw that sudden color. If the most
+humble-minded man retains in the depths of his soul a certain conceit of
+which he never rids himself, any more than a woman ever rids herself of
+coquetry, who shall blame Eugene if he did say softly in his own mind:
+"What! that fortress, too?" So thinking, he posed in his cravat.
+Young men may not be grasping but they like to get a new coin in their
+collection.
+
+Monsieur de Listomere seized the "Gazette de France," which he saw on
+the mantelpiece, and carried it to a window, to obtain, by journalistic
+help, an opinion of his own on the state of France.
+
+A woman, even a prude, is never long embarrassed, however difficult may
+be the position in which she finds herself; she seems always to have on
+hand the fig-leaf which our mother Eve bequeathed to her. Consequently,
+when Eugene, interpreting, in favor of his vanity, the refusal to admit
+him, bowed to Madame de Listomere in a tolerably intentional manner, she
+veiled her thoughts behind one of those feminine smiles which are more
+impenetrable than the words of a king.
+
+"Are you unwell, madame? You denied yourself to visitors."
+
+"I am well, monsieur."
+
+"Perhaps you were going out?"
+
+"Not at all."
+
+"You expected some one?"
+
+"No one."
+
+"If my visit is indiscreet you must blame Monsieur le marquis. I had
+already accepted your mysterious denial, when he himself came up, and
+introduced me into the sanctuary."
+
+"Monsieur de Listomere is not in my confidence on this point. It is not
+always prudent to put a husband in possession of certain secrets."
+
+The firm and gentle tones in which the marquise said these words, and
+the imposing glance which she cast upon Rastignac made him aware that he
+had posed in his cravat a trifle prematurely.
+
+"Madame, I understand you," he said, laughing. "I ought, therefore, to
+be doubly thankful that Monsieur le marquis met me; he affords me an
+opportunity to offer you excuses which might be full of danger were you
+not kindness itself."
+
+The marquise looked at the young man with an air of some surprise, but
+she answered with dignity:--
+
+"Monsieur, silence on your part will be the best excuse. As for me,
+I promise you entire forgetfulness, and the pardon which you scarcely
+deserve."
+
+"Madame," said Rastignac, hastily, "pardon is not needed where there was
+no offence. The letter," he added, in a low voice, "which you received,
+and which you must have thought extremely unbecoming, was not intended
+for you."
+
+The marquise could not help smiling, though she wished to seem offended.
+
+"Why deceive?" she said, with a disdainful air, although the tones of
+her voice were gentle. "Now that I have duly scolded you, I am willing
+to laugh at a subterfuge which is not without cleverness. I know many
+women who would be taken in by it: 'Heavens! how he loves me!' they
+would say."
+
+Here the marquise gave a forced laugh, and then added, in a tone of
+indulgence:--
+
+"If we desire to continue friends let there be no more _mistakes_, of
+which it is impossible that I should be the dupe."
+
+"Upon my honor, madame, you are so--far more than you think," replied
+Eugene.
+
+"What are you talking about?" asked Monsieur de Listomere, who, for
+the last minute, had been listening to the conversation, the meaning of
+which he could not penetrate.
+
+"Oh! nothing that would interest you," replied his wife.
+
+Monsieur de Listomere tranquilly returned to the reading of his paper,
+and presently said:--
+
+"Ah! Madame de Mortsauf is dead; your poor brother has, no doubt, gone
+to Clochegourde."
+
+"Are you aware, monsieur," resumed the marquise, turning to Eugene,
+"that what you have just said is a great impertinence?"
+
+"If I did not know the strictness of your principles," he answered,
+naively, "I should think that you wished either to give me ideas which I
+deny myself, or else to tear a secret from me. But perhaps you are only
+amusing yourself with me."
+
+The marquise smiled. That smile annoyed Eugene.
+
+"Madame," he said, "can you still believe in an offence I have not
+committed? I earnestly hope that chance may not enable you to discover
+the name of the person who ought to have read that letter."
+
+"What! can it be _still_ Madame de Nucingen?" cried Madame de Listomere,
+more eager to penetrate that secret than to revenge herself for the
+impertinence of the young man's speeches.
+
+Eugene colored. A man must be more than twenty-five years of age not
+to blush at being taxed with a fidelity that women laugh at--in order,
+perhaps, not to show that they envy it. However, he replied with
+tolerable self-possession:--
+
+"Why not, madame?"
+
+Such are the blunders we all make at twenty-five.
+
+This speech caused a violent commotion in Madame de Listomere's bosom;
+but Rastignac did not yet know how to analyze a woman's face by a rapid
+or sidelong glance. The lips of the marquise paled, but that was all.
+She rang the bell for wood, and so constrained Rastignac to rise and
+take his leave.
+
+"If that be so," said the marquise, stopping Eugene with a cold and
+rigid manner, "you will find it difficult to explain, monsieur, why your
+pen should, by accident, write my name. A name, written on a letter,
+is not a friend's opera-hat, which you might have taken, carelessly, on
+leaving a ball."
+
+Eugene, discomfited, looked at the marquise with an air that was both
+stupid and conceited. He felt that he was becoming ridiculous; and after
+stammering a few juvenile phrases he left the room.
+
+A few days later the marquise acquired undeniable proofs that Eugene had
+told the truth. For the last fortnight she has not been seen in society.
+
+The marquis tells all those who ask him the reason of this seclusion:--
+
+"My wife has an inflammation of the stomach."
+
+But I, her physician, who am now attending her, know it is really
+nothing more than a slight nervous attack, which she is making the most
+of in order to stay quietly at home.
+
+
+
+
+ADDENDUM
+
+The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
+
+     Bianchon, Horace
+       Father Goriot
+       The Atheist's Mass
+       Cesar Birotteau
+       The Commission in Lunacy
+       Lost Illusions
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       A Bachelor's Establishment
+       The Secrets of a Princess
+       The Government Clerks
+       Pierrette
+       A Study of Woman
+       Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+       Honorine
+       The Seamy Side of History
+       The Magic Skin
+       A Second Home
+       A Prince of Bohemia
+       Letters of Two Brides
+       The Muse of the Department
+       The Imaginary Mistress
+       The Middle Classes
+       Cousin Betty
+       The Country Parson
+     In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:
+       Another Study of Woman
+
+     Joseph
+       The Magic Skin
+
+     Listomere, Marquis de
+       The Lily of the Valley
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+
+     Listomere, Marquise de
+       The Lily of the Valley
+       Lost Illusions
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       A Daughter of Eve
+
+     Rastignac, Eugene de
+       Father Goriot
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+       The Ball at Sceaux
+       The Interdiction
+       Another Study of Woman
+       The Magic Skin
+       The Secrets of a Princess
+       A Daughter of Eve
+       The Gondreville Mystery
+       The Firm of Nucingen
+       Cousin Betty
+       The Member for Arcis
+       The Unconscious Humorists
+
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1373 ***
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+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <h1>
+      STUDY OF A WOMAN
+    </h1>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      By Honore De Balzac
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      DEDICATION<br /><br /> To the Marquis Jean-Charles di Negro.<br />
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0001"> STUDY OF A WOMAN </a><br /><br /> <a
+      href="#link2H_4_0002"> ADDENDUM </a><br /><br />
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
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+    <hr />
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+    <h1>
+      STUDY OF A WOMAN
+    </h1>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been
+      brought up in the spirit of the Restoration. She has principles, she
+      fasts, takes the sacrament, and goes to balls and operas very elegantly
+      dressed; her confessor permits her to combine the mundane with sanctity.
+      Always in conformity with the Church and with the world, she presents a
+      living image of the present day, which seems to have taken the word
+      "legality" for its motto. The conduct of the marquise shows precisely
+      enough religious devotion to attain under a new Maintenon to the gloomy
+      piety of the last days of Louis XIV., and enough worldliness to adopt the
+      habits of gallantry of the first years of that reign, should it ever be
+      revived. At the present moment she is strictly virtuous from policy,
+      possibly from inclination. Married for the last seven years to the Marquis
+      de Listomere, one of those deputies who expect a peerage, she may also
+      consider that such conduct will promote the ambitions of her family. Some
+      women are reserving their opinion of her until the moment when Monsieur de
+      Listomere becomes a peer of France, when she herself will be thirty-six
+      years of age,&mdash;a period of life when most women discover that they
+      are the dupes of social laws.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The marquis is a rather insignificant man. He stands well at court; his
+      good qualities are as negative as his defects; the former can no more make
+      him a reputation for virtue than the latter can give him the sort of
+      glamor cast by vice. As deputy, he never speaks, but he votes RIGHT. He
+      behaves in his own home as he does in the Chamber. Consequently, he is
+      held to be one of the best husbands in France. Though not susceptible of
+      lively interest, he never scolds, unless, to be sure, he is kept waiting.
+      His friends have named him "dull weather,"&mdash;aptly enough, for there
+      is neither clear light nor total darkness about him. He is like all the
+      ministers who have succeeded one another in France since the Charter. A
+      woman with principles could not have fallen into better hands. It is
+      certainly a great thing for a virtuous woman to have married a man
+      incapable of follies.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Occasionally some fops have been sufficiently impertinent to press the
+      hand of the marquise while dancing with her. They gained nothing in return
+      but contemptuous glances; all were made to feel the shock of that
+      insulting indifference which, like a spring frost, destroys the germs of
+      flattering hopes. Beaux, wits, and fops, men whose sentiments are fed by
+      sucking their canes, those of a great name, or a great fame, those of the
+      highest or the lowest rank in her own world, they all blanch before her.
+      She has conquered the right to converse as long and as often as she
+      chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable, without being entered on
+      the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish women are capable of following a
+      plan of this kind for seven years in order to gratify their fancies later;
+      but to suppose any such reservations in the Marquise de Listomere would be
+      to calumniate her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      I have had the happiness of knowing this phoenix. She talks well; I know
+      how to listen; consequently I please her, and I go to her parties. That,
+      in fact, was the object of my ambition.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Neither plain nor pretty, Madame de Listomere has white teeth, a dazzling
+      skin, and very red lips; she is tall and well-made; her foot is small and
+      slender, and she does not put it forth; her eyes, far from being dulled
+      like those of so many Parisian women, have a gentle glow which becomes
+      quite magical if, by chance, she is animated. A soul is then divined
+      behind that rather indefinite form. If she takes an interest in the
+      conversation she displays a grace which is otherwise buried beneath the
+      precautions of cold demeanor, and then she is charming. She does not seek
+      success, but she obtains it. We find that for which we do not seek: that
+      saying is so often true that some day it will be turned into a proverb. It
+      is, in fact, the moral of this adventure, which I should not allow myself
+      to tell if it were not echoing at the present moment through all the
+      salons of Paris.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Marquise de Listomere danced, about a month ago, with a young man as
+      modest as he is lively, full of good qualities, but exhibiting, chiefly,
+      his defects. He is ardent, but he laughs at ardor; he has talent, and he
+      hides it; he plays the learned man with aristocrats, and the aristocrat
+      with learned men. Eugene de Rastignac is one of those extremely clever
+      young men who try all things, and seem to sound others to discover what
+      the future has in store. While awaiting the age of ambition, he scoffs at
+      everything; he has grace and originality, two rare qualities because the
+      one is apt to exclude the other. On this occasion he talked for nearly
+      half an hour with madame de Listomere, without any predetermined idea of
+      pleasing her. As they followed the caprices of conversation, which,
+      beginning with the opera of "Guillaume Tell," had reached the topic of the
+      duties of women, he looked at the marquise, more than once, in a manner
+      that embarrassed her; then he left her and did not speak to her again for
+      the rest of the evening. He danced, played at ecarte, lost some money, and
+      went home to bed. I have the honor to assure you that the affair happened
+      precisely thus. I add nothing, and I suppress nothing.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself up
+      to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man
+      glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery.
+      The heavier the body from its weight of sleep, the more active the mind.
+      Rastignac finally got up, without yawning over-much as many ill-bred
+      persons are apt to do. He rang for his valet, ordered tea, and drank
+      immoderately of it when it came; which will not seem extraordinary to
+      persons who like tea; but to explain the circumstance to others, who
+      regard that beverage as a panacea for indigestion, I will add that Eugene
+      was, by this time, writing letters. He was comfortably seated, with his
+      feet more frequently on the andirons than, properly, on the rug. Ah! to
+      have one's feet on the polished bar which connects the two griffins of a
+      fender, and to think of our love in our dressing-gown is so delightful a
+      thing that I deeply regret the fact of having neither mistress, nor
+      fender, nor dressing-gown.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The first letter which Eugene wrote was soon finished; he folded and
+      sealed it, and laid it before him without adding the address. The second
+      letter, begun at eleven o'clock, was not finished till mid-day. The four
+      pages were closely filled.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That woman keeps running in my head," he muttered, as he folded this
+      second epistle and laid it before him, intending to direct it as soon as
+      he had ended his involuntary revery.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He crossed the two flaps of his flowered dressing-gown, put his feet on a
+      stool, slipped his hands into the pockets of his red cashmere trousers,
+      and lay back in a delightful easy-chair with side wings, the seat and back
+      of which described an angle of one hundred and twenty degrees. He stopped
+      drinking tea and remained motionless, his eyes fixed on the gilded hand
+      which formed the knob of his shovel, but without seeing either hand or
+      shovel. He ceased even to poke the fire,&mdash;a vast mistake! Isn't it
+      one of our greatest pleasures to play with the fire when we think of
+      women? Our minds find speeches in those tiny blue flames which suddenly
+      dart up and babble on the hearth. We interpret as we please the strong,
+      harsh tones of a "burgundian."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here I must pause to put before all ignorant persons an explanation of
+      that word, derived from a very distinguished etymologist who wishes his
+      name kept secret.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Burgundian" is the name given, since the reign of Charles VI., to those
+      noisy detonations, the result of which is to fling upon the carpet or the
+      clothes a little coal or ember, the trifling nucleus of a conflagration.
+      Heat or fire releases, they say, a bubble of air left in the heart of the
+      wood by a gnawing worm. "Inde amor, inde burgundus." We tremble when we
+      see the structure we had so carefully erected between the logs rolling
+      down like an avalanche. Oh! to build and stir and play with fire when we
+      love is the material development of our thoughts.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was at this moment that I entered the room. Rastignac gave a jump and
+      said:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah! there you are, dear Horace; how long have you been here?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Just come."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He took up the two letters, directed them, and rang for his servant.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Take these," he said, "and deliver them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Joseph departed without a word; admirable servant!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      We began to talk of the expedition to Morea, to which I was anxious to be
+      appointed as physician. Eugene remarked that I should lose a great deal of
+      time if I left Paris. We then conversed on various matters, and I think
+      you will be glad if I suppress the conversation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the Marquise de Listomere rose, about half-past two in the afternoon
+      of that day, her waiting-maid, Caroline, gave her a letter which she read
+      while Caroline was doing her hair (an imprudence which many young women
+      are thoughtless enough to commit).
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Dear angel of love," said the letter, "treasure of my life and happiness&mdash;"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At these words the marquise was about to fling the letter in the fire; but
+      there came into her head a fancy&mdash;which all virtuous women will
+      readily understand&mdash;to see how a man who began a letter in that style
+      could possibly end it. When she had turned the fourth page and read it,
+      she let her arms drop like a person much fatigued.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Caroline, go and ask who left this letter."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Madame, I received it myself from the valet of Monsieur le Baron de
+      Rastignac."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      After that there was silence for some time.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Does Madame intend to dress?" asked Caroline at last.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No&mdash;He is certainly a most impertinent man," reflected the marquise.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      I request all women to imagine for themselves the reflections of which
+      this was the first.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Madame de Listomere ended hers by a formal decision to forbid her porter
+      to admit Monsieur de Rastignac, and to show him, herself, something more
+      than disdain when she met him in society; for his insolence far surpassed
+      that of other men which the marquise had ended by overlooking. At first
+      she thought of keeping the letter; but on second thoughts she burned it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Madame had just received such a fine love-letter; and she read it," said
+      Caroline to the housemaid.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I should never have thought that of madame," replied the other, quite
+      surprised.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      That evening Madame de Listomere went to a party at the Marquis de
+      Beauseant's, where Rastignac would probably betake himself. It was
+      Saturday. The Marquis de Beauseant was in some way a connection of
+      Monsieur de Rastignac, and the young man was not likely to miss coming. By
+      two in the morning Madame de Listomere, who had gone there solely for the
+      purpose of crushing Eugene by her coldness, discovered that she was
+      waiting in vain. A brilliant man&mdash;Stendhal&mdash;has given the
+      fantastic name of "crystallization" to the process which Madame de
+      Listomere's thoughts went through before, during, and after this evening.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Four days later Eugene was scolding his valet.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah ca! Joseph; I shall soon have to send you away, my lad."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What is it, monsieur?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You do nothing but make mistakes. Where did you carry those letters I
+      gave you Saturday?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Joseph became stolid. Like a statue in some cathedral porch, he stood
+      motionless, entirely absorbed in the labors of imagination. Suddenly he
+      smiled idiotically, and said:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Monsieur, one was for the Marquise de Listomere, the other was for
+      Monsieur's lawyer."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You are certain of what you say?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Joseph was speechless. I saw plainly that I must interfere, as I happened
+      to be again in Eugene's apartment.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Joseph is right," I said.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Eugene turned and looked at me.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I read the addresses quite involuntarily, and&mdash;"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And," interrupted Eugene, "one of them was <i>not</i> for Madame de
+      Nucingen?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, by all the devils, it was not. Consequently, I supposed, my dear
+      fellow, that your heart was wandering from the rue Saint-Lazare to the rue
+      Saint-Dominique."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Eugene struck his forehead with the flat of his hand and began to laugh;
+      by which Joseph perceived that the blame was not on him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now, there are certain morals to this tale on which young men had better
+      reflect. <i>First mistake</i>: Eugene thought it would be amusing to make
+      Madame de Listomere laugh at the blunder which had made her the recipient
+      of a love-letter which was not intended for her. <i>Second mistake</i>: he
+      did not call on Madame de Listomere for several days after the adventure,
+      thus allowing the thoughts of that virtuous young woman to crystallize.
+      There were other mistakes which I will here pass over in silence, in order
+      to give the ladies the pleasure of deducing them, "ex professo," to those
+      who are unable to guess them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Eugene at last went to call upon the marquise; but, on attempting to pass
+      into the house, the porter stopped him, saying that Madame la marquise was
+      out. As he was getting back into his carriage the Marquis de Listomere
+      came home.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Come in, Eugene," he said. "My wife is at home."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Pray excuse the marquis. A husband, however good he may be, never attains
+      perfection. As they went up the staircase Rastignac perceived at least a
+      dozen blunders in worldly wisdom which had, unaccountably, slipped into
+      this page of the glorious book of his life.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When Madame de Listomere saw her husband ushering in Eugene she could not
+      help blushing. The young baron saw that sudden color. If the most
+      humble-minded man retains in the depths of his soul a certain conceit of
+      which he never rids himself, any more than a woman ever rids herself of
+      coquetry, who shall blame Eugene if he did say softly in his own mind:
+      "What! that fortress, too?" So thinking, he posed in his cravat. Young men
+      may not be grasping but they like to get a new coin in their collection.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Monsieur de Listomere seized the "Gazette de France," which he saw on the
+      mantelpiece, and carried it to a window, to obtain, by journalistic help,
+      an opinion of his own on the state of France.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A woman, even a prude, is never long embarrassed, however difficult may be
+      the position in which she finds herself; she seems always to have on hand
+      the fig-leaf which our mother Eve bequeathed to her. Consequently, when
+      Eugene, interpreting, in favor of his vanity, the refusal to admit him,
+      bowed to Madame de Listomere in a tolerably intentional manner, she veiled
+      her thoughts behind one of those feminine smiles which are more
+      impenetrable than the words of a king.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Are you unwell, madame? You denied yourself to visitors."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am well, monsieur."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Perhaps you were going out?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Not at all."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You expected some one?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No one."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If my visit is indiscreet you must blame Monsieur le marquis. I had
+      already accepted your mysterious denial, when he himself came up, and
+      introduced me into the sanctuary."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Monsieur de Listomere is not in my confidence on this point. It is not
+      always prudent to put a husband in possession of certain secrets."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The firm and gentle tones in which the marquise said these words, and the
+      imposing glance which she cast upon Rastignac made him aware that he had
+      posed in his cravat a trifle prematurely.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Madame, I understand you," he said, laughing. "I ought, therefore, to be
+      doubly thankful that Monsieur le marquis met me; he affords me an
+      opportunity to offer you excuses which might be full of danger were you
+      not kindness itself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The marquise looked at the young man with an air of some surprise, but she
+      answered with dignity:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Monsieur, silence on your part will be the best excuse. As for me, I
+      promise you entire forgetfulness, and the pardon which you scarcely
+      deserve."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Madame," said Rastignac, hastily, "pardon is not needed where there was
+      no offence. The letter," he added, in a low voice, "which you received,
+      and which you must have thought extremely unbecoming, was not intended for
+      you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The marquise could not help smiling, though she wished to seem offended.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why deceive?" she said, with a disdainful air, although the tones of her
+      voice were gentle. "Now that I have duly scolded you, I am willing to
+      laugh at a subterfuge which is not without cleverness. I know many women
+      who would be taken in by it: 'Heavens! how he loves me!' they would say."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here the marquise gave a forced laugh, and then added, in a tone of
+      indulgence:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If we desire to continue friends let there be no more <i>mistakes</i>, of
+      which it is impossible that I should be the dupe."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Upon my honor, madame, you are so&mdash;far more than you think," replied
+      Eugene.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What are you talking about?" asked Monsieur de Listomere, who, for the
+      last minute, had been listening to the conversation, the meaning of which
+      he could not penetrate.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Oh! nothing that would interest you," replied his wife.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Monsieur de Listomere tranquilly returned to the reading of his paper, and
+      presently said:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah! Madame de Mortsauf is dead; your poor brother has, no doubt, gone to
+      Clochegourde."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Are you aware, monsieur," resumed the marquise, turning to Eugene, "that
+      what you have just said is a great impertinence?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If I did not know the strictness of your principles," he answered,
+      naively, "I should think that you wished either to give me ideas which I
+      deny myself, or else to tear a secret from me. But perhaps you are only
+      amusing yourself with me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The marquise smiled. That smile annoyed Eugene.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Madame," he said, "can you still believe in an offence I have not
+      committed? I earnestly hope that chance may not enable you to discover the
+      name of the person who ought to have read that letter."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What! can it be <i>still</i> Madame de Nucingen?" cried Madame de
+      Listomere, more eager to penetrate that secret than to revenge herself for
+      the impertinence of the young man's speeches.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Eugene colored. A man must be more than twenty-five years of age not to
+      blush at being taxed with a fidelity that women laugh at&mdash;in order,
+      perhaps, not to show that they envy it. However, he replied with tolerable
+      self-possession:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why not, madame?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Such are the blunders we all make at twenty-five.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This speech caused a violent commotion in Madame de Listomere's bosom; but
+      Rastignac did not yet know how to analyze a woman's face by a rapid or
+      sidelong glance. The lips of the marquise paled, but that was all. She
+      rang the bell for wood, and so constrained Rastignac to rise and take his
+      leave.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If that be so," said the marquise, stopping Eugene with a cold and rigid
+      manner, "you will find it difficult to explain, monsieur, why your pen
+      should, by accident, write my name. A name, written on a letter, is not a
+      friend's opera-hat, which you might have taken, carelessly, on leaving a
+      ball."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Eugene, discomfited, looked at the marquise with an air that was both
+      stupid and conceited. He felt that he was becoming ridiculous; and after
+      stammering a few juvenile phrases he left the room.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A few days later the marquise acquired undeniable proofs that Eugene had
+      told the truth. For the last fortnight she has not been seen in society.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The marquis tells all those who ask him the reason of this seclusion:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "My wife has an inflammation of the stomach."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But I, her physician, who am now attending her, know it is really nothing
+      more than a slight nervous attack, which she is making the most of in
+      order to stay quietly at home.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      ADDENDUM
+    </h2>
+    <h3>
+      The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
+    </h3>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     Bianchon, Horace
+       Father Goriot
+       The Atheist's Mass
+       Cesar Birotteau
+       The Commission in Lunacy
+       Lost Illusions
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       A Bachelor's Establishment
+       The Secrets of a Princess
+       The Government Clerks
+       Pierrette
+       A Study of Woman
+       Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+       Honorine
+       The Seamy Side of History
+       The Magic Skin
+       A Second Home
+       A Prince of Bohemia
+       Letters of Two Brides
+       The Muse of the Department
+       The Imaginary Mistress
+       The Middle Classes
+       Cousin Betty
+       The Country Parson
+     In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:
+       Another Study of Woman
+
+     Joseph
+       The Magic Skin
+
+     Listomere, Marquis de
+       The Lily of the Valley
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+
+     Listomere, Marquise de
+       The Lily of the Valley
+       Lost Illusions
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       A Daughter of Eve
+
+     Rastignac, Eugene de
+       Father Goriot
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+       The Ball at Sceaux
+       The Interdiction
+       Another Study of Woman
+       The Magic Skin
+       The Secrets of a Princess
+       A Daughter of Eve
+       The Gondreville Mystery
+       The Firm of Nucingen
+       Cousin Betty
+       The Member for Arcis
+       The Unconscious Humorists
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+  <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1373 ***</div>
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+Title: Study of a Woman
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+Author: Honore de Balzac
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+Translator: Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <h1>
+      STUDY OF A WOMAN
+    </h1>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      By Honore De Balzac
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      DEDICATION<br /><br /> To the Marquis Jean-Charles di Negro.<br />
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0001"> STUDY OF A WOMAN </a><br /><br /> <a
+      href="#link2H_4_0002"> ADDENDUM </a><br /><br />
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="link2H_4_0001" id="link2H_4_0001">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <h1>
+      STUDY OF A WOMAN
+    </h1>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been
+      brought up in the spirit of the Restoration. She has principles, she
+      fasts, takes the sacrament, and goes to balls and operas very elegantly
+      dressed; her confessor permits her to combine the mundane with sanctity.
+      Always in conformity with the Church and with the world, she presents a
+      living image of the present day, which seems to have taken the word
+      "legality" for its motto. The conduct of the marquise shows precisely
+      enough religious devotion to attain under a new Maintenon to the gloomy
+      piety of the last days of Louis XIV., and enough worldliness to adopt the
+      habits of gallantry of the first years of that reign, should it ever be
+      revived. At the present moment she is strictly virtuous from policy,
+      possibly from inclination. Married for the last seven years to the Marquis
+      de Listomere, one of those deputies who expect a peerage, she may also
+      consider that such conduct will promote the ambitions of her family. Some
+      women are reserving their opinion of her until the moment when Monsieur de
+      Listomere becomes a peer of France, when she herself will be thirty-six
+      years of age,&mdash;a period of life when most women discover that they
+      are the dupes of social laws.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The marquis is a rather insignificant man. He stands well at court; his
+      good qualities are as negative as his defects; the former can no more make
+      him a reputation for virtue than the latter can give him the sort of
+      glamor cast by vice. As deputy, he never speaks, but he votes RIGHT. He
+      behaves in his own home as he does in the Chamber. Consequently, he is
+      held to be one of the best husbands in France. Though not susceptible of
+      lively interest, he never scolds, unless, to be sure, he is kept waiting.
+      His friends have named him "dull weather,"&mdash;aptly enough, for there
+      is neither clear light nor total darkness about him. He is like all the
+      ministers who have succeeded one another in France since the Charter. A
+      woman with principles could not have fallen into better hands. It is
+      certainly a great thing for a virtuous woman to have married a man
+      incapable of follies.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Occasionally some fops have been sufficiently impertinent to press the
+      hand of the marquise while dancing with her. They gained nothing in return
+      but contemptuous glances; all were made to feel the shock of that
+      insulting indifference which, like a spring frost, destroys the germs of
+      flattering hopes. Beaux, wits, and fops, men whose sentiments are fed by
+      sucking their canes, those of a great name, or a great fame, those of the
+      highest or the lowest rank in her own world, they all blanch before her.
+      She has conquered the right to converse as long and as often as she
+      chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable, without being entered on
+      the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish women are capable of following a
+      plan of this kind for seven years in order to gratify their fancies later;
+      but to suppose any such reservations in the Marquise de Listomere would be
+      to calumniate her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      I have had the happiness of knowing this phoenix. She talks well; I know
+      how to listen; consequently I please her, and I go to her parties. That,
+      in fact, was the object of my ambition.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Neither plain nor pretty, Madame de Listomere has white teeth, a dazzling
+      skin, and very red lips; she is tall and well-made; her foot is small and
+      slender, and she does not put it forth; her eyes, far from being dulled
+      like those of so many Parisian women, have a gentle glow which becomes
+      quite magical if, by chance, she is animated. A soul is then divined
+      behind that rather indefinite form. If she takes an interest in the
+      conversation she displays a grace which is otherwise buried beneath the
+      precautions of cold demeanor, and then she is charming. She does not seek
+      success, but she obtains it. We find that for which we do not seek: that
+      saying is so often true that some day it will be turned into a proverb. It
+      is, in fact, the moral of this adventure, which I should not allow myself
+      to tell if it were not echoing at the present moment through all the
+      salons of Paris.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Marquise de Listomere danced, about a month ago, with a young man as
+      modest as he is lively, full of good qualities, but exhibiting, chiefly,
+      his defects. He is ardent, but he laughs at ardor; he has talent, and he
+      hides it; he plays the learned man with aristocrats, and the aristocrat
+      with learned men. Eugene de Rastignac is one of those extremely clever
+      young men who try all things, and seem to sound others to discover what
+      the future has in store. While awaiting the age of ambition, he scoffs at
+      everything; he has grace and originality, two rare qualities because the
+      one is apt to exclude the other. On this occasion he talked for nearly
+      half an hour with madame de Listomere, without any predetermined idea of
+      pleasing her. As they followed the caprices of conversation, which,
+      beginning with the opera of "Guillaume Tell," had reached the topic of the
+      duties of women, he looked at the marquise, more than once, in a manner
+      that embarrassed her; then he left her and did not speak to her again for
+      the rest of the evening. He danced, played at ecarte, lost some money, and
+      went home to bed. I have the honor to assure you that the affair happened
+      precisely thus. I add nothing, and I suppress nothing.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself up
+      to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man
+      glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery.
+      The heavier the body from its weight of sleep, the more active the mind.
+      Rastignac finally got up, without yawning over-much as many ill-bred
+      persons are apt to do. He rang for his valet, ordered tea, and drank
+      immoderately of it when it came; which will not seem extraordinary to
+      persons who like tea; but to explain the circumstance to others, who
+      regard that beverage as a panacea for indigestion, I will add that Eugene
+      was, by this time, writing letters. He was comfortably seated, with his
+      feet more frequently on the andirons than, properly, on the rug. Ah! to
+      have one's feet on the polished bar which connects the two griffins of a
+      fender, and to think of our love in our dressing-gown is so delightful a
+      thing that I deeply regret the fact of having neither mistress, nor
+      fender, nor dressing-gown.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The first letter which Eugene wrote was soon finished; he folded and
+      sealed it, and laid it before him without adding the address. The second
+      letter, begun at eleven o'clock, was not finished till mid-day. The four
+      pages were closely filled.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That woman keeps running in my head," he muttered, as he folded this
+      second epistle and laid it before him, intending to direct it as soon as
+      he had ended his involuntary revery.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He crossed the two flaps of his flowered dressing-gown, put his feet on a
+      stool, slipped his hands into the pockets of his red cashmere trousers,
+      and lay back in a delightful easy-chair with side wings, the seat and back
+      of which described an angle of one hundred and twenty degrees. He stopped
+      drinking tea and remained motionless, his eyes fixed on the gilded hand
+      which formed the knob of his shovel, but without seeing either hand or
+      shovel. He ceased even to poke the fire,&mdash;a vast mistake! Isn't it
+      one of our greatest pleasures to play with the fire when we think of
+      women? Our minds find speeches in those tiny blue flames which suddenly
+      dart up and babble on the hearth. We interpret as we please the strong,
+      harsh tones of a "burgundian."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here I must pause to put before all ignorant persons an explanation of
+      that word, derived from a very distinguished etymologist who wishes his
+      name kept secret.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Burgundian" is the name given, since the reign of Charles VI., to those
+      noisy detonations, the result of which is to fling upon the carpet or the
+      clothes a little coal or ember, the trifling nucleus of a conflagration.
+      Heat or fire releases, they say, a bubble of air left in the heart of the
+      wood by a gnawing worm. "Inde amor, inde burgundus." We tremble when we
+      see the structure we had so carefully erected between the logs rolling
+      down like an avalanche. Oh! to build and stir and play with fire when we
+      love is the material development of our thoughts.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was at this moment that I entered the room. Rastignac gave a jump and
+      said:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah! there you are, dear Horace; how long have you been here?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Just come."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He took up the two letters, directed them, and rang for his servant.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Take these," he said, "and deliver them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Joseph departed without a word; admirable servant!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      We began to talk of the expedition to Morea, to which I was anxious to be
+      appointed as physician. Eugene remarked that I should lose a great deal of
+      time if I left Paris. We then conversed on various matters, and I think
+      you will be glad if I suppress the conversation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the Marquise de Listomere rose, about half-past two in the afternoon
+      of that day, her waiting-maid, Caroline, gave her a letter which she read
+      while Caroline was doing her hair (an imprudence which many young women
+      are thoughtless enough to commit).
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Dear angel of love," said the letter, "treasure of my life and happiness&mdash;"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At these words the marquise was about to fling the letter in the fire; but
+      there came into her head a fancy&mdash;which all virtuous women will
+      readily understand&mdash;to see how a man who began a letter in that style
+      could possibly end it. When she had turned the fourth page and read it,
+      she let her arms drop like a person much fatigued.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Caroline, go and ask who left this letter."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Madame, I received it myself from the valet of Monsieur le Baron de
+      Rastignac."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      After that there was silence for some time.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Does Madame intend to dress?" asked Caroline at last.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No&mdash;He is certainly a most impertinent man," reflected the marquise.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      I request all women to imagine for themselves the reflections of which
+      this was the first.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Madame de Listomere ended hers by a formal decision to forbid her porter
+      to admit Monsieur de Rastignac, and to show him, herself, something more
+      than disdain when she met him in society; for his insolence far surpassed
+      that of other men which the marquise had ended by overlooking. At first
+      she thought of keeping the letter; but on second thoughts she burned it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Madame had just received such a fine love-letter; and she read it," said
+      Caroline to the housemaid.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I should never have thought that of madame," replied the other, quite
+      surprised.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      That evening Madame de Listomere went to a party at the Marquis de
+      Beauseant's, where Rastignac would probably betake himself. It was
+      Saturday. The Marquis de Beauseant was in some way a connection of
+      Monsieur de Rastignac, and the young man was not likely to miss coming. By
+      two in the morning Madame de Listomere, who had gone there solely for the
+      purpose of crushing Eugene by her coldness, discovered that she was
+      waiting in vain. A brilliant man&mdash;Stendhal&mdash;has given the
+      fantastic name of "crystallization" to the process which Madame de
+      Listomere's thoughts went through before, during, and after this evening.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Four days later Eugene was scolding his valet.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah ca! Joseph; I shall soon have to send you away, my lad."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What is it, monsieur?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You do nothing but make mistakes. Where did you carry those letters I
+      gave you Saturday?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Joseph became stolid. Like a statue in some cathedral porch, he stood
+      motionless, entirely absorbed in the labors of imagination. Suddenly he
+      smiled idiotically, and said:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Monsieur, one was for the Marquise de Listomere, the other was for
+      Monsieur's lawyer."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You are certain of what you say?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Joseph was speechless. I saw plainly that I must interfere, as I happened
+      to be again in Eugene's apartment.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Joseph is right," I said.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Eugene turned and looked at me.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I read the addresses quite involuntarily, and&mdash;"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And," interrupted Eugene, "one of them was <i>not</i> for Madame de
+      Nucingen?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, by all the devils, it was not. Consequently, I supposed, my dear
+      fellow, that your heart was wandering from the rue Saint-Lazare to the rue
+      Saint-Dominique."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Eugene struck his forehead with the flat of his hand and began to laugh;
+      by which Joseph perceived that the blame was not on him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now, there are certain morals to this tale on which young men had better
+      reflect. <i>First mistake</i>: Eugene thought it would be amusing to make
+      Madame de Listomere laugh at the blunder which had made her the recipient
+      of a love-letter which was not intended for her. <i>Second mistake</i>: he
+      did not call on Madame de Listomere for several days after the adventure,
+      thus allowing the thoughts of that virtuous young woman to crystallize.
+      There were other mistakes which I will here pass over in silence, in order
+      to give the ladies the pleasure of deducing them, "ex professo," to those
+      who are unable to guess them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Eugene at last went to call upon the marquise; but, on attempting to pass
+      into the house, the porter stopped him, saying that Madame la marquise was
+      out. As he was getting back into his carriage the Marquis de Listomere
+      came home.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Come in, Eugene," he said. "My wife is at home."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Pray excuse the marquis. A husband, however good he may be, never attains
+      perfection. As they went up the staircase Rastignac perceived at least a
+      dozen blunders in worldly wisdom which had, unaccountably, slipped into
+      this page of the glorious book of his life.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When Madame de Listomere saw her husband ushering in Eugene she could not
+      help blushing. The young baron saw that sudden color. If the most
+      humble-minded man retains in the depths of his soul a certain conceit of
+      which he never rids himself, any more than a woman ever rids herself of
+      coquetry, who shall blame Eugene if he did say softly in his own mind:
+      "What! that fortress, too?" So thinking, he posed in his cravat. Young men
+      may not be grasping but they like to get a new coin in their collection.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Monsieur de Listomere seized the "Gazette de France," which he saw on the
+      mantelpiece, and carried it to a window, to obtain, by journalistic help,
+      an opinion of his own on the state of France.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A woman, even a prude, is never long embarrassed, however difficult may be
+      the position in which she finds herself; she seems always to have on hand
+      the fig-leaf which our mother Eve bequeathed to her. Consequently, when
+      Eugene, interpreting, in favor of his vanity, the refusal to admit him,
+      bowed to Madame de Listomere in a tolerably intentional manner, she veiled
+      her thoughts behind one of those feminine smiles which are more
+      impenetrable than the words of a king.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Are you unwell, madame? You denied yourself to visitors."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am well, monsieur."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Perhaps you were going out?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Not at all."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You expected some one?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No one."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If my visit is indiscreet you must blame Monsieur le marquis. I had
+      already accepted your mysterious denial, when he himself came up, and
+      introduced me into the sanctuary."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Monsieur de Listomere is not in my confidence on this point. It is not
+      always prudent to put a husband in possession of certain secrets."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The firm and gentle tones in which the marquise said these words, and the
+      imposing glance which she cast upon Rastignac made him aware that he had
+      posed in his cravat a trifle prematurely.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Madame, I understand you," he said, laughing. "I ought, therefore, to be
+      doubly thankful that Monsieur le marquis met me; he affords me an
+      opportunity to offer you excuses which might be full of danger were you
+      not kindness itself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The marquise looked at the young man with an air of some surprise, but she
+      answered with dignity:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Monsieur, silence on your part will be the best excuse. As for me, I
+      promise you entire forgetfulness, and the pardon which you scarcely
+      deserve."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Madame," said Rastignac, hastily, "pardon is not needed where there was
+      no offence. The letter," he added, in a low voice, "which you received,
+      and which you must have thought extremely unbecoming, was not intended for
+      you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The marquise could not help smiling, though she wished to seem offended.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why deceive?" she said, with a disdainful air, although the tones of her
+      voice were gentle. "Now that I have duly scolded you, I am willing to
+      laugh at a subterfuge which is not without cleverness. I know many women
+      who would be taken in by it: 'Heavens! how he loves me!' they would say."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here the marquise gave a forced laugh, and then added, in a tone of
+      indulgence:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If we desire to continue friends let there be no more <i>mistakes</i>, of
+      which it is impossible that I should be the dupe."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Upon my honor, madame, you are so&mdash;far more than you think," replied
+      Eugene.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What are you talking about?" asked Monsieur de Listomere, who, for the
+      last minute, had been listening to the conversation, the meaning of which
+      he could not penetrate.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Oh! nothing that would interest you," replied his wife.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Monsieur de Listomere tranquilly returned to the reading of his paper, and
+      presently said:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah! Madame de Mortsauf is dead; your poor brother has, no doubt, gone to
+      Clochegourde."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Are you aware, monsieur," resumed the marquise, turning to Eugene, "that
+      what you have just said is a great impertinence?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If I did not know the strictness of your principles," he answered,
+      naively, "I should think that you wished either to give me ideas which I
+      deny myself, or else to tear a secret from me. But perhaps you are only
+      amusing yourself with me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The marquise smiled. That smile annoyed Eugene.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Madame," he said, "can you still believe in an offence I have not
+      committed? I earnestly hope that chance may not enable you to discover the
+      name of the person who ought to have read that letter."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What! can it be <i>still</i> Madame de Nucingen?" cried Madame de
+      Listomere, more eager to penetrate that secret than to revenge herself for
+      the impertinence of the young man's speeches.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Eugene colored. A man must be more than twenty-five years of age not to
+      blush at being taxed with a fidelity that women laugh at&mdash;in order,
+      perhaps, not to show that they envy it. However, he replied with tolerable
+      self-possession:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why not, madame?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Such are the blunders we all make at twenty-five.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This speech caused a violent commotion in Madame de Listomere's bosom; but
+      Rastignac did not yet know how to analyze a woman's face by a rapid or
+      sidelong glance. The lips of the marquise paled, but that was all. She
+      rang the bell for wood, and so constrained Rastignac to rise and take his
+      leave.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If that be so," said the marquise, stopping Eugene with a cold and rigid
+      manner, "you will find it difficult to explain, monsieur, why your pen
+      should, by accident, write my name. A name, written on a letter, is not a
+      friend's opera-hat, which you might have taken, carelessly, on leaving a
+      ball."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Eugene, discomfited, looked at the marquise with an air that was both
+      stupid and conceited. He felt that he was becoming ridiculous; and after
+      stammering a few juvenile phrases he left the room.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A few days later the marquise acquired undeniable proofs that Eugene had
+      told the truth. For the last fortnight she has not been seen in society.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The marquis tells all those who ask him the reason of this seclusion:&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "My wife has an inflammation of the stomach."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But I, her physician, who am now attending her, know it is really nothing
+      more than a slight nervous attack, which she is making the most of in
+      order to stay quietly at home.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      ADDENDUM
+    </h2>
+    <h3>
+      The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
+    </h3>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     Bianchon, Horace
+       Father Goriot
+       The Atheist's Mass
+       Cesar Birotteau
+       The Commission in Lunacy
+       Lost Illusions
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       A Bachelor's Establishment
+       The Secrets of a Princess
+       The Government Clerks
+       Pierrette
+       A Study of Woman
+       Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+       Honorine
+       The Seamy Side of History
+       The Magic Skin
+       A Second Home
+       A Prince of Bohemia
+       Letters of Two Brides
+       The Muse of the Department
+       The Imaginary Mistress
+       The Middle Classes
+       Cousin Betty
+       The Country Parson
+     In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:
+       Another Study of Woman
+
+     Joseph
+       The Magic Skin
+
+     Listomere, Marquis de
+       The Lily of the Valley
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+
+     Listomere, Marquise de
+       The Lily of the Valley
+       Lost Illusions
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       A Daughter of Eve
+
+     Rastignac, Eugene de
+       Father Goriot
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+       The Ball at Sceaux
+       The Interdiction
+       Another Study of Woman
+       The Magic Skin
+       The Secrets of a Princess
+       A Daughter of Eve
+       The Gondreville Mystery
+       The Firm of Nucingen
+       Cousin Betty
+       The Member for Arcis
+       The Unconscious Humorists
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac
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+Title: Study of a Woman
+
+Author: Honore de Balzac
+
+Translator: Katharine Prescott Wormeley
+
+Release Date: July, 1997  [Etext #1373]
+Posting Date: February 23, 2010
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STUDY OF A WOMAN ***
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+
+STUDY OF A WOMAN
+
+
+By Honore De Balzac
+
+
+
+Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
+
+
+
+
+                             DEDICATION
+
+                To the Marquis Jean-Charles di Negro.
+
+
+
+
+
+STUDY OF A WOMAN
+
+
+The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been
+brought up in the spirit of the Restoration. She has principles, she
+fasts, takes the sacrament, and goes to balls and operas very elegantly
+dressed; her confessor permits her to combine the mundane with sanctity.
+Always in conformity with the Church and with the world, she presents
+a living image of the present day, which seems to have taken the word
+"legality" for its motto. The conduct of the marquise shows precisely
+enough religious devotion to attain under a new Maintenon to the gloomy
+piety of the last days of Louis XIV., and enough worldliness to adopt
+the habits of gallantry of the first years of that reign, should it ever
+be revived. At the present moment she is strictly virtuous from policy,
+possibly from inclination. Married for the last seven years to the
+Marquis de Listomere, one of those deputies who expect a peerage, she
+may also consider that such conduct will promote the ambitions of her
+family. Some women are reserving their opinion of her until the moment
+when Monsieur de Listomere becomes a peer of France, when she herself
+will be thirty-six years of age,--a period of life when most women
+discover that they are the dupes of social laws.
+
+The marquis is a rather insignificant man. He stands well at court; his
+good qualities are as negative as his defects; the former can no more
+make him a reputation for virtue than the latter can give him the sort
+of glamor cast by vice. As deputy, he never speaks, but he votes RIGHT.
+He behaves in his own home as he does in the Chamber. Consequently, he
+is held to be one of the best husbands in France. Though not susceptible
+of lively interest, he never scolds, unless, to be sure, he is kept
+waiting. His friends have named him "dull weather,"--aptly enough, for
+there is neither clear light nor total darkness about him. He is like
+all the ministers who have succeeded one another in France since the
+Charter. A woman with principles could not have fallen into better
+hands. It is certainly a great thing for a virtuous woman to have
+married a man incapable of follies.
+
+Occasionally some fops have been sufficiently impertinent to press the
+hand of the marquise while dancing with her. They gained nothing in
+return but contemptuous glances; all were made to feel the shock of that
+insulting indifference which, like a spring frost, destroys the germs of
+flattering hopes. Beaux, wits, and fops, men whose sentiments are fed
+by sucking their canes, those of a great name, or a great fame, those of
+the highest or the lowest rank in her own world, they all blanch before
+her. She has conquered the right to converse as long and as often as she
+chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable, without being entered on
+the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish women are capable of following
+a plan of this kind for seven years in order to gratify their fancies
+later; but to suppose any such reservations in the Marquise de Listomere
+would be to calumniate her.
+
+I have had the happiness of knowing this phoenix. She talks well; I know
+how to listen; consequently I please her, and I go to her parties. That,
+in fact, was the object of my ambition.
+
+Neither plain nor pretty, Madame de Listomere has white teeth, a
+dazzling skin, and very red lips; she is tall and well-made; her foot
+is small and slender, and she does not put it forth; her eyes, far from
+being dulled like those of so many Parisian women, have a gentle glow
+which becomes quite magical if, by chance, she is animated. A soul
+is then divined behind that rather indefinite form. If she takes an
+interest in the conversation she displays a grace which is otherwise
+buried beneath the precautions of cold demeanor, and then she is
+charming. She does not seek success, but she obtains it. We find that
+for which we do not seek: that saying is so often true that some day
+it will be turned into a proverb. It is, in fact, the moral of this
+adventure, which I should not allow myself to tell if it were not
+echoing at the present moment through all the salons of Paris.
+
+The Marquise de Listomere danced, about a month ago, with a young man as
+modest as he is lively, full of good qualities, but exhibiting, chiefly,
+his defects. He is ardent, but he laughs at ardor; he has talent, and he
+hides it; he plays the learned man with aristocrats, and the aristocrat
+with learned men. Eugene de Rastignac is one of those extremely clever
+young men who try all things, and seem to sound others to discover what
+the future has in store. While awaiting the age of ambition, he scoffs
+at everything; he has grace and originality, two rare qualities because
+the one is apt to exclude the other. On this occasion he talked for
+nearly half an hour with madame de Listomere, without any predetermined
+idea of pleasing her. As they followed the caprices of conversation,
+which, beginning with the opera of "Guillaume Tell," had reached the
+topic of the duties of women, he looked at the marquise, more than once,
+in a manner that embarrassed her; then he left her and did not speak to
+her again for the rest of the evening. He danced, played at ecarte, lost
+some money, and went home to bed. I have the honor to assure you that
+the affair happened precisely thus. I add nothing, and I suppress
+nothing.
+
+The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself
+up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man
+glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery.
+The heavier the body from its weight of sleep, the more active the mind.
+Rastignac finally got up, without yawning over-much as many ill-bred
+persons are apt to do. He rang for his valet, ordered tea, and drank
+immoderately of it when it came; which will not seem extraordinary to
+persons who like tea; but to explain the circumstance to others, who
+regard that beverage as a panacea for indigestion, I will add that
+Eugene was, by this time, writing letters. He was comfortably seated,
+with his feet more frequently on the andirons than, properly, on the
+rug. Ah! to have one's feet on the polished bar which connects the two
+griffins of a fender, and to think of our love in our dressing-gown is
+so delightful a thing that I deeply regret the fact of having neither
+mistress, nor fender, nor dressing-gown.
+
+The first letter which Eugene wrote was soon finished; he folded and
+sealed it, and laid it before him without adding the address. The second
+letter, begun at eleven o'clock, was not finished till mid-day. The four
+pages were closely filled.
+
+"That woman keeps running in my head," he muttered, as he folded this
+second epistle and laid it before him, intending to direct it as soon as
+he had ended his involuntary revery.
+
+He crossed the two flaps of his flowered dressing-gown, put his feet
+on a stool, slipped his hands into the pockets of his red cashmere
+trousers, and lay back in a delightful easy-chair with side wings, the
+seat and back of which described an angle of one hundred and twenty
+degrees. He stopped drinking tea and remained motionless, his eyes fixed
+on the gilded hand which formed the knob of his shovel, but without
+seeing either hand or shovel. He ceased even to poke the fire,--a vast
+mistake! Isn't it one of our greatest pleasures to play with the fire
+when we think of women? Our minds find speeches in those tiny blue
+flames which suddenly dart up and babble on the hearth. We interpret as
+we please the strong, harsh tones of a "burgundian."
+
+Here I must pause to put before all ignorant persons an explanation of
+that word, derived from a very distinguished etymologist who wishes his
+name kept secret.
+
+"Burgundian" is the name given, since the reign of Charles VI., to those
+noisy detonations, the result of which is to fling upon the carpet
+or the clothes a little coal or ember, the trifling nucleus of a
+conflagration. Heat or fire releases, they say, a bubble of air left in
+the heart of the wood by a gnawing worm. "Inde amor, inde burgundus."
+We tremble when we see the structure we had so carefully erected between
+the logs rolling down like an avalanche. Oh! to build and stir and play
+with fire when we love is the material development of our thoughts.
+
+It was at this moment that I entered the room. Rastignac gave a jump and
+said:--
+
+"Ah! there you are, dear Horace; how long have you been here?"
+
+"Just come."
+
+"Ah!"
+
+He took up the two letters, directed them, and rang for his servant.
+
+"Take these," he said, "and deliver them."
+
+Joseph departed without a word; admirable servant!
+
+We began to talk of the expedition to Morea, to which I was anxious to
+be appointed as physician. Eugene remarked that I should lose a great
+deal of time if I left Paris. We then conversed on various matters, and
+I think you will be glad if I suppress the conversation.
+
+When the Marquise de Listomere rose, about half-past two in the
+afternoon of that day, her waiting-maid, Caroline, gave her a letter
+which she read while Caroline was doing her hair (an imprudence which
+many young women are thoughtless enough to commit).
+
+"Dear angel of love," said the letter, "treasure of my life and
+happiness--"
+
+At these words the marquise was about to fling the letter in the fire;
+but there came into her head a fancy--which all virtuous women will
+readily understand--to see how a man who began a letter in that style
+could possibly end it. When she had turned the fourth page and read it,
+she let her arms drop like a person much fatigued.
+
+"Caroline, go and ask who left this letter."
+
+"Madame, I received it myself from the valet of Monsieur le Baron de
+Rastignac."
+
+After that there was silence for some time.
+
+"Does Madame intend to dress?" asked Caroline at last.
+
+"No--He is certainly a most impertinent man," reflected the marquise.
+
+I request all women to imagine for themselves the reflections of which
+this was the first.
+
+Madame de Listomere ended hers by a formal decision to forbid her porter
+to admit Monsieur de Rastignac, and to show him, herself, something
+more than disdain when she met him in society; for his insolence far
+surpassed that of other men which the marquise had ended by overlooking.
+At first she thought of keeping the letter; but on second thoughts she
+burned it.
+
+"Madame had just received such a fine love-letter; and she read it,"
+said Caroline to the housemaid.
+
+"I should never have thought that of madame," replied the other, quite
+surprised.
+
+That evening Madame de Listomere went to a party at the Marquis de
+Beauseant's, where Rastignac would probably betake himself. It was
+Saturday. The Marquis de Beauseant was in some way a connection of
+Monsieur de Rastignac, and the young man was not likely to miss coming.
+By two in the morning Madame de Listomere, who had gone there solely for
+the purpose of crushing Eugene by her coldness, discovered that she was
+waiting in vain. A brilliant man--Stendhal--has given the fantastic name
+of "crystallization" to the process which Madame de Listomere's thoughts
+went through before, during, and after this evening.
+
+Four days later Eugene was scolding his valet.
+
+"Ah ca! Joseph; I shall soon have to send you away, my lad."
+
+"What is it, monsieur?"
+
+"You do nothing but make mistakes. Where did you carry those letters I
+gave you Saturday?"
+
+Joseph became stolid. Like a statue in some cathedral porch, he stood
+motionless, entirely absorbed in the labors of imagination. Suddenly he
+smiled idiotically, and said:--
+
+"Monsieur, one was for the Marquise de Listomere, the other was for
+Monsieur's lawyer."
+
+"You are certain of what you say?"
+
+Joseph was speechless. I saw plainly that I must interfere, as I
+happened to be again in Eugene's apartment.
+
+"Joseph is right," I said.
+
+Eugene turned and looked at me.
+
+"I read the addresses quite involuntarily, and--"
+
+"And," interrupted Eugene, "one of them was _not_ for Madame de
+Nucingen?"
+
+"No, by all the devils, it was not. Consequently, I supposed, my dear
+fellow, that your heart was wandering from the rue Saint-Lazare to the
+rue Saint-Dominique."
+
+Eugene struck his forehead with the flat of his hand and began to laugh;
+by which Joseph perceived that the blame was not on him.
+
+Now, there are certain morals to this tale on which young men had better
+reflect. _First mistake_: Eugene thought it would be amusing to
+make Madame de Listomere laugh at the blunder which had made her the
+recipient of a love-letter which was not intended for her. _Second
+mistake_: he did not call on Madame de Listomere for several days after
+the adventure, thus allowing the thoughts of that virtuous young woman
+to crystallize. There were other mistakes which I will here pass over in
+silence, in order to give the ladies the pleasure of deducing them, "ex
+professo," to those who are unable to guess them.
+
+Eugene at last went to call upon the marquise; but, on attempting to
+pass into the house, the porter stopped him, saying that Madame la
+marquise was out. As he was getting back into his carriage the Marquis
+de Listomere came home.
+
+"Come in, Eugene," he said. "My wife is at home."
+
+Pray excuse the marquis. A husband, however good he may be, never
+attains perfection. As they went up the staircase Rastignac perceived
+at least a dozen blunders in worldly wisdom which had, unaccountably,
+slipped into this page of the glorious book of his life.
+
+When Madame de Listomere saw her husband ushering in Eugene she could
+not help blushing. The young baron saw that sudden color. If the most
+humble-minded man retains in the depths of his soul a certain conceit of
+which he never rids himself, any more than a woman ever rids herself of
+coquetry, who shall blame Eugene if he did say softly in his own mind:
+"What! that fortress, too?" So thinking, he posed in his cravat.
+Young men may not be grasping but they like to get a new coin in their
+collection.
+
+Monsieur de Listomere seized the "Gazette de France," which he saw on
+the mantelpiece, and carried it to a window, to obtain, by journalistic
+help, an opinion of his own on the state of France.
+
+A woman, even a prude, is never long embarrassed, however difficult may
+be the position in which she finds herself; she seems always to have on
+hand the fig-leaf which our mother Eve bequeathed to her. Consequently,
+when Eugene, interpreting, in favor of his vanity, the refusal to admit
+him, bowed to Madame de Listomere in a tolerably intentional manner, she
+veiled her thoughts behind one of those feminine smiles which are more
+impenetrable than the words of a king.
+
+"Are you unwell, madame? You denied yourself to visitors."
+
+"I am well, monsieur."
+
+"Perhaps you were going out?"
+
+"Not at all."
+
+"You expected some one?"
+
+"No one."
+
+"If my visit is indiscreet you must blame Monsieur le marquis. I had
+already accepted your mysterious denial, when he himself came up, and
+introduced me into the sanctuary."
+
+"Monsieur de Listomere is not in my confidence on this point. It is not
+always prudent to put a husband in possession of certain secrets."
+
+The firm and gentle tones in which the marquise said these words, and
+the imposing glance which she cast upon Rastignac made him aware that he
+had posed in his cravat a trifle prematurely.
+
+"Madame, I understand you," he said, laughing. "I ought, therefore, to
+be doubly thankful that Monsieur le marquis met me; he affords me an
+opportunity to offer you excuses which might be full of danger were you
+not kindness itself."
+
+The marquise looked at the young man with an air of some surprise, but
+she answered with dignity:--
+
+"Monsieur, silence on your part will be the best excuse. As for me,
+I promise you entire forgetfulness, and the pardon which you scarcely
+deserve."
+
+"Madame," said Rastignac, hastily, "pardon is not needed where there was
+no offence. The letter," he added, in a low voice, "which you received,
+and which you must have thought extremely unbecoming, was not intended
+for you."
+
+The marquise could not help smiling, though she wished to seem offended.
+
+"Why deceive?" she said, with a disdainful air, although the tones of
+her voice were gentle. "Now that I have duly scolded you, I am willing
+to laugh at a subterfuge which is not without cleverness. I know many
+women who would be taken in by it: 'Heavens! how he loves me!' they
+would say."
+
+Here the marquise gave a forced laugh, and then added, in a tone of
+indulgence:--
+
+"If we desire to continue friends let there be no more _mistakes_, of
+which it is impossible that I should be the dupe."
+
+"Upon my honor, madame, you are so--far more than you think," replied
+Eugene.
+
+"What are you talking about?" asked Monsieur de Listomere, who, for
+the last minute, had been listening to the conversation, the meaning of
+which he could not penetrate.
+
+"Oh! nothing that would interest you," replied his wife.
+
+Monsieur de Listomere tranquilly returned to the reading of his paper,
+and presently said:--
+
+"Ah! Madame de Mortsauf is dead; your poor brother has, no doubt, gone
+to Clochegourde."
+
+"Are you aware, monsieur," resumed the marquise, turning to Eugene,
+"that what you have just said is a great impertinence?"
+
+"If I did not know the strictness of your principles," he answered,
+naively, "I should think that you wished either to give me ideas which I
+deny myself, or else to tear a secret from me. But perhaps you are only
+amusing yourself with me."
+
+The marquise smiled. That smile annoyed Eugene.
+
+"Madame," he said, "can you still believe in an offence I have not
+committed? I earnestly hope that chance may not enable you to discover
+the name of the person who ought to have read that letter."
+
+"What! can it be _still_ Madame de Nucingen?" cried Madame de Listomere,
+more eager to penetrate that secret than to revenge herself for the
+impertinence of the young man's speeches.
+
+Eugene colored. A man must be more than twenty-five years of age not
+to blush at being taxed with a fidelity that women laugh at--in order,
+perhaps, not to show that they envy it. However, he replied with
+tolerable self-possession:--
+
+"Why not, madame?"
+
+Such are the blunders we all make at twenty-five.
+
+This speech caused a violent commotion in Madame de Listomere's bosom;
+but Rastignac did not yet know how to analyze a woman's face by a rapid
+or sidelong glance. The lips of the marquise paled, but that was all.
+She rang the bell for wood, and so constrained Rastignac to rise and
+take his leave.
+
+"If that be so," said the marquise, stopping Eugene with a cold and
+rigid manner, "you will find it difficult to explain, monsieur, why your
+pen should, by accident, write my name. A name, written on a letter,
+is not a friend's opera-hat, which you might have taken, carelessly, on
+leaving a ball."
+
+Eugene, discomfited, looked at the marquise with an air that was both
+stupid and conceited. He felt that he was becoming ridiculous; and after
+stammering a few juvenile phrases he left the room.
+
+A few days later the marquise acquired undeniable proofs that Eugene had
+told the truth. For the last fortnight she has not been seen in society.
+
+The marquis tells all those who ask him the reason of this seclusion:--
+
+"My wife has an inflammation of the stomach."
+
+But I, her physician, who am now attending her, know it is really
+nothing more than a slight nervous attack, which she is making the most
+of in order to stay quietly at home.
+
+
+
+
+ADDENDUM
+
+The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
+
+     Bianchon, Horace
+       Father Goriot
+       The Atheist's Mass
+       Cesar Birotteau
+       The Commission in Lunacy
+       Lost Illusions
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       A Bachelor's Establishment
+       The Secrets of a Princess
+       The Government Clerks
+       Pierrette
+       A Study of Woman
+       Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+       Honorine
+       The Seamy Side of History
+       The Magic Skin
+       A Second Home
+       A Prince of Bohemia
+       Letters of Two Brides
+       The Muse of the Department
+       The Imaginary Mistress
+       The Middle Classes
+       Cousin Betty
+       The Country Parson
+     In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:
+       Another Study of Woman
+
+     Joseph
+       The Magic Skin
+
+     Listomere, Marquis de
+       The Lily of the Valley
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+
+     Listomere, Marquise de
+       The Lily of the Valley
+       Lost Illusions
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       A Daughter of Eve
+
+     Rastignac, Eugene de
+       Father Goriot
+       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+       Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+       The Ball at Sceaux
+       The Interdiction
+       Another Study of Woman
+       The Magic Skin
+       The Secrets of a Princess
+       A Daughter of Eve
+       The Gondreville Mystery
+       The Firm of Nucingen
+       Cousin Betty
+       The Member for Arcis
+       The Unconscious Humorists
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+Title: Study of a Woman
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+Author: Honore de Balzac
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+Translator: Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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+                          STUDY OF A WOMAN
+
+                                 BY
+
+                          HONORE DE BALZAC
+
+
+
+                           Translated by
+                    Katharine Prescott Wormeley
+
+
+
+
+                             DEDICATION
+
+                To the Marquis Jean-Charles di Negro.
+
+
+
+
+                          STUDY OF A WOMAN
+
+
+
+
+The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been
+brought up in the spirit of the Restoration. She has principles, she
+fasts, takes the sacrament, and goes to balls and operas very
+elegantly dressed; her confessor permits her to combine the mundane
+with sanctity. Always in conformity with the Church and with the
+world, she presents a living image of the present day, which seems to
+have taken the word "legality" for its motto. The conduct of the
+marquise shows precisely enough religious devotion to attain under a
+new Maintenon to the gloomy piety of the last days of Louis XIV., and
+enough worldliness to adopt the habits of gallantry of the first years
+of that reign, should it ever be revived. At the present moment she is
+strictly virtuous from policy, possibly from inclination. Married for
+the last seven years to the Marquis de Listomere, one of those
+deputies who expect a peerage, she may also consider that such conduct
+will promote the ambitions of her family. Some women are reserving
+their opinion of her until the moment when Monsieur de Listomere
+becomes a peer of France, when she herself will be thirty-six years of
+age,--a period of life when most women discover that they are the
+dupes of social laws.
+
+The marquis is a rather insignificant man. He stands well at court;
+his good qualities are as negative as his defects; the former can no
+more make him a reputation for virtue than the latter can give him the
+sort of glamor cast by vice. As deputy, he never speaks, but he votes
+RIGHT. He behaves in his own home as he does in the Chamber.
+Consequently, he is held to be one of the best husbands in France.
+Though not susceptible of lively interest, he never scolds, unless, to
+be sure, he is kept waiting. His friends have named him "dull
+weather,"--aptly enough, for there is neither clear light nor total
+darkness about him. He is like all the ministers who have succeeded
+one another in France since the Charter. A woman with principles could
+not have fallen into better hands. It is certainly a great thing for a
+virtuous woman to have married a man incapable of follies.
+
+Occasionally some fops have been sufficiently impertinent to press the
+hand of the marquise while dancing with her. They gained nothing in
+return but contemptuous glances; all were made to feel the shock of
+that insulting indifference which, like a spring frost, destroys the
+germs of flattering hopes. Beaux, wits, and fops, men whose sentiments
+are fed by sucking their canes, those of a great name, or a great
+fame, those of the highest or the lowest rank in her own world, they
+all blanch before her. She has conquered the right to converse as long
+and as often as she chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable,
+without being entered on the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish
+women are capable of following a plan of this kind for seven years in
+order to gratify their fancies later; but to suppose any such
+reservations in the Marquise de Listomere would be to calumniate her.
+
+I have had the happiness of knowing this phoenix. She talks well; I
+know how to listen; consequently I please her, and I go to her
+parties. That, in fact, was the object of my ambition.
+
+Neither plain nor pretty, Madame de Listomere has white teeth, a
+dazzling skin, and very red lips; she is tall and well-made; her foot
+is small and slender, and she does not put it forth; her eyes, far
+from being dulled like those of so many Parisian women, have a gentle
+glow which becomes quite magical if, by chance, she is animated. A
+soul is then divined behind that rather indefinite form. If she takes
+an interest in the conversation she displays a grace which is
+otherwise buried beneath the precautions of cold demeanor, and then
+she is charming. She does not seek success, but she obtains it. We
+find that for which we do not seek: that saying is so often true that
+some day it will be turned into a proverb. It is, in fact, the moral
+of this adventure, which I should not allow myself to tell if it were
+not echoing at the present moment through all the salons of Paris.
+
+The Marquise de Listomere danced, about a month ago, with a young man
+as modest as he is lively, full of good qualities, but exhibiting,
+chiefly, his defects. He is ardent, but he laughs at ardor; he has
+talent, and he hides it; he plays the learned man with aristocrats,
+and the aristocrat with learned men. Eugene de Rastignac is one of
+those extremely clever young men who try all things, and seem to sound
+others to discover what the future has in store. While awaiting the
+age of ambition, he scoffs at everything; he has grace and
+originality, two rare qualities because the one is apt to exclude the
+other. On this occasion he talked for nearly half an hour with madame
+de Listomere, without any predetermined idea of pleasing her. As they
+followed the caprices of conversation, which, beginning with the opera
+of "Guillaume Tell," had reached the topic of the duties of women, he
+looked at the marquise, more than once, in a manner that embarrassed
+her; then he left her and did not speak to her again for the rest of
+the evening. He danced, played at ecarte, lost some money, and went
+home to bed. I have the honor to assure you that the affair happened
+precisely thus. I add nothing, and I suppress nothing.
+
+The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself
+up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young
+man glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton
+drapery. The heavier the body from its weight of sleep, the more
+active the mind. Rastignac finally got up, without yawning over-much
+as many ill-bred persons are apt to do. He rang for his valet, ordered
+tea, and drank immoderately of it when it came; which will not seem
+extraordinary to persons who like tea; but to explain the circumstance
+to others, who regard that beverage as a panacea for indigestion, I
+will add that Eugene was, by this time, writing letters. He was
+comfortably seated, with his feet more frequently on the andirons
+than, properly, on the rug. Ah! to have one's feet on the polished bar
+which connects the two griffins of a fender, and to think of our love
+in our dressing-gown is so delightful a thing that I deeply regret the
+fact of having neither mistress, nor fender, nor dressing-gown.
+
+The first letter which Eugene wrote was soon finished; he folded and
+sealed it, and laid it before him without adding the address. The
+second letter, begun at eleven o'clock, was not finished till mid-day.
+The four pages were closely filled.
+
+"That woman keeps running in my head," he muttered, as he folded this
+second epistle and laid it before him, intending to direct it as soon
+as he had ended his involuntary revery.
+
+He crossed the two flaps of his flowered dressing-gown, put his feet
+on a stool, slipped his hands into the pockets of his red cashmere
+trousers, and lay back in a delightful easy-chair with side wings, the
+seat and back of which described an angle of one hundred and twenty
+degrees. He stopped drinking tea and remained motionless, his eyes
+fixed on the gilded hand which formed the knob of his shovel, but
+without seeing either hand or shovel. He ceased even to poke the fire,
+--a vast mistake! Isn't it one of our greatest pleasures to play with
+the fire when we think of women? Our minds find speeches in those tiny
+blue flames which suddenly dart up and babble on the hearth. We
+interpret as we please the strong, harsh tones of a "burgundian."
+
+Here I must pause to put before all ignorant persons an explanation of
+that word, derived from a very distinguished etymologist who wishes
+his name kept secret.
+
+"Burgundian" is the name given, since the reign of Charles VI., to
+those noisy detonations, the result of which is to fling upon the
+carpet or the clothes a little coal or ember, the trifling nucleus of
+a conflagration. Heat or fire releases, they say, a bubble of air left
+in the heart of the wood by a gnawing worm. "Inde amor, inde
+burgundus." We tremble when we see the structure we had so carefully
+erected between the logs rolling down like an avalanche. Oh! to build
+and stir and play with fire when we love is the material development
+of our thoughts.
+
+It was at this moment that I entered the room. Rastignac gave a jump
+and said:--
+
+"Ah! there you are, dear Horace; how long have you been here?"
+
+"Just come."
+
+"Ah!"
+
+He took up the two letters, directed them, and rang for his servant.
+
+"Take these," he said, "and deliver them."
+
+Joseph departed without a word; admirable servant!
+
+We began to talk of the expedition to Morea, to which I was anxious to
+be appointed as physician. Eugene remarked that I should lose a great
+deal of time if I left Paris. We then conversed on various matters,
+and I think you will be glad if I suppress the conversation.
+
+When the Marquise de Listomere rose, about half-past two in the
+afternoon of that day, her waiting-maid, Caroline, gave her a letter
+which she read while Caroline was doing her hair (an imprudence which
+many young women are thoughtless enough to commit).
+
+"Dear angel of love," said the letter, "treasure of my life and
+happiness--"
+
+At these words the marquise was about to fling the letter in the fire;
+but there came into her head a fancy--which all virtuous women will
+readily understand--to see how a man who began a letter in that style
+could possibly end it. When she had turned the fourth page and read
+it, she let her arms drop like a person much fatigued.
+
+"Caroline, go and ask who left this letter."
+
+"Madame, I received it myself from the valet of Monsieur le Baron de
+Rastignac."
+
+After that there was silence for some time.
+
+"Does Madame intend to dress?" asked Caroline at last.
+
+"No-- He is certainly a most impertinent man," reflected the marquise.
+
+I request all women to imagine for themselves the reflections of which
+this was the first.
+
+Madame de Listomere ended hers by a formal decision to forbid her
+porter to admit Monsieur de Rastignac, and to show him, herself,
+something more than disdain when she met him in society; for his
+insolence far surpassed that of other men which the marquise had ended
+by overlooking. At first she thought of keeping the letter; but on
+second thoughts she burned it.
+
+"Madame had just received such a fine love-letter; and she read it,"
+said Caroline to the housemaid.
+
+"I should never have thought that of madame," replied the other, quite
+surprised.
+
+That evening Madame de Listomere went to a party at the Marquis de
+Beauseant's, where Rastignac would probably betake himself. It was
+Saturday. The Marquis de Beauseant was in some way a connection of
+Monsieur de Rastignac, and the young man was not likely to miss
+coming. By two in the morning Madame de Listomere, who had gone there
+solely for the purpose of crushing Eugene by her coldness, discovered
+that she was waiting in vain. A brilliant man--Stendhal--has given the
+fantastic name of "crystallization" to the process which Madame de
+Listomere's thoughts went through before, during, and after this
+evening.
+
+Four days later Eugene was scolding his valet.
+
+"Ah ca! Joseph; I shall soon have to send you away, my lad."
+
+"What is it, monsieur?"
+
+"You do nothing but make mistakes. Where did you carry those letters I
+gave you Saturday?"
+
+Joseph became stolid. Like a statue in some cathedral porch, he stood
+motionless, entirely absorbed in the labors of imagination. Suddenly
+he smiled idiotically, and said:--
+
+"Monsieur, one was for the Marquise de Listomere, the other was for
+Monsieur's lawyer."
+
+"You are certain of what you say?"
+
+Joseph was speechless. I saw plainly that I must interfere, as I
+happened to be again in Eugene's apartment.
+
+"Joseph is right," I said.
+
+Eugene turned and looked at me.
+
+"I read the addresses quite involuntarily, and--"
+
+"And," interrupted Eugene, "one of them was _not_ for Madame de
+Nucingen?"
+
+"No, by all the devils, it was not. Consequently, I supposed, my dear
+fellow, that your heart was wandering from the rue Saint-Lazare to the
+rue Saint-Dominique."
+
+Eugene struck his forehead with the flat of his hand and began to
+laugh; by which Joseph perceived that the blame was not on him.
+
+Now, there are certain morals to this tale on which young men had
+better reflect. _First mistake_: Eugene thought it would be amusing to
+make Madame de Listomere laugh at the blunder which had made her the
+recipient of a love-letter which was not intended for her. _Second
+mistake_: he did not call on Madame de Listomere for several days after
+the adventure, thus allowing the thoughts of that virtuous young woman
+to crystallize. There were other mistakes which I will here pass over
+in silence, in order to give the ladies the pleasure of deducing them,
+"ex professo," to those who are unable to guess them.
+
+Eugene at last went to call upon the marquise; but, on attempting to
+pass into the house, the porter stopped him, saying that Madame la
+marquise was out. As he was getting back into his carriage the Marquis
+de Listomere came home.
+
+"Come in, Eugene," he said. "My wife is at home."
+
+Pray excuse the marquis. A husband, however good he may be, never
+attains perfection. As they went up the staircase Rastignac perceived
+at least a dozen blunders in worldly wisdom which had, unaccountably,
+slipped into this page of the glorious book of his life.
+
+When Madame de Listomere saw her husband ushering in Eugene she could
+not help blushing. The young baron saw that sudden color. If the most
+humble-minded man retains in the depths of his soul a certain conceit
+of which he never rids himself, any more than a woman ever rids
+herself of coquetry, who shall blame Eugene if he did say softly in
+his own mind: "What! that fortress, too?" So thinking, he posed in his
+cravat. Young men may not be grasping but they like to get a new coin
+in their collection.
+
+Monsieur de Listomere seized the "Gazette de France," which he saw on
+the mantelpiece, and carried it to a window, to obtain, by
+journalistic help, an opinion of his own on the state of France.
+
+A woman, even a prude, is never long embarrassed, however difficult
+may be the position in which she finds herself; she seems always to
+have on hand the fig-leaf which our mother Eve bequeathed to her.
+Consequently, when Eugene, interpreting, in favor of his vanity, the
+refusal to admit him, bowed to Madame de Listomere in a tolerably
+intentional manner, she veiled her thoughts behind one of those
+feminine smiles which are more impenetrable than the words of a king.
+
+"Are you unwell, madame? You denied yourself to visitors."
+
+"I am well, monsieur."
+
+"Perhaps you were going out?"
+
+"Not at all."
+
+"You expected some one?"
+
+"No one."
+
+"If my visit is indiscreet you must blame Monsieur le marquis. I had
+already accepted your mysterious denial, when he himself came up, and
+introduced me into the sanctuary."
+
+"Monsieur de Listomere is not in my confidence on this point. It is
+not always prudent to put a husband in possession of certain secrets."
+
+The firm and gentle tones in which the marquise said these words, and
+the imposing glance which she cast upon Rastignac made him aware that
+he had posed in his cravat a trifle prematurely.
+
+"Madame, I understand you," he said, laughing. "I ought, therefore, to
+be doubly thankful that Monsieur le marquis met me; he affords me an
+opportunity to offer you excuses which might be full of danger were
+you not kindness itself."
+
+The marquise looked at the young man with an air of some surprise, but
+she answered with dignity:--
+
+"Monsieur, silence on your part will be the best excuse. As for me, I
+promise you entire forgetfulness, and the pardon which you scarcely
+deserve."
+
+"Madame," said Rastignac, hastily, "pardon is not needed where there
+was no offence. The letter," he added, in a low voice, "which you
+received, and which you must have thought extremely unbecoming, was
+not intended for you."
+
+The marquise could not help smiling, though she wished to seem
+offended.
+
+"Why deceive?" she said, with a disdainful air, although the tones of
+her voice were gentle. "Now that I have duly scolded you, I am willing
+to laugh at a subterfuge which is not without cleverness. I know many
+women who would be taken in by it: 'Heavens! how he loves me!' they
+would say."
+
+Here the marquise gave a forced laugh, and then added, in a tone of
+indulgence:--
+
+"If we desire to continue friends let there be no more _mistakes_, of
+which it is impossible that I should be the dupe."
+
+"Upon my honor, madame, you are so--far more than you think," replied
+Eugene.
+
+"What are you talking about?" asked Monsieur de Listomere, who, for
+the last minute, had been listening to the conversation, the meaning
+of which he could not penetrate.
+
+"Oh! nothing that would interest you," replied his wife.
+
+Monsieur de Listomere tranquilly returned to the reading of his paper,
+and presently said:--
+
+"Ah! Madame de Mortsauf is dead; your poor brother has, no doubt, gone
+to Clochegourde."
+
+"Are you aware, monsieur," resumed the marquise, turning to Eugene,
+"that what you have just said is a great impertinence?"
+
+"If I did not know the strictness of your principles," he answered,
+naively, "I should think that you wished either to give me ideas which
+I deny myself, or else to tear a secret from me. But perhaps you are
+only amusing yourself with me."
+
+The marquise smiled. That smile annoyed Eugene.
+
+"Madame," he said, "can you still believe in an offence I have not
+committed? I earnestly hope that chance may not enable you to discover
+the name of the person who ought to have read that letter."
+
+"What! can it be _still_ Madame de Nucingen?" cried Madame de Listomere,
+more eager to penetrate that secret than to revenge herself for the
+impertinence of the young man's speeches.
+
+Eugene colored. A man must be more than twenty-five years of age not
+to blush at being taxed with a fidelity that women laugh at--in order,
+perhaps, not to show that they envy it. However, he replied with
+tolerable self-possession:--
+
+"Why not, madame?"
+
+Such are the blunders we all make at twenty-five.
+
+This speech caused a violent commotion in Madame de Listomere's bosom;
+but Rastignac did not yet know how to analyze a woman's face by a
+rapid or sidelong glance. The lips of the marquise paled, but that was
+all. She rang the bell for wood, and so constrained Rastignac to rise
+and take his leave.
+
+"If that be so," said the marquise, stopping Eugene with a cold and
+rigid manner, "you will find it difficult to explain, monsieur, why
+your pen should, by accident, write my name. A name, written on a
+letter, is not a friend's opera-hat, which you might have taken,
+carelessly, on leaving a ball."
+
+Eugene, discomfited, looked at the marquise with an air that was both
+stupid and conceited. He felt that he was becoming ridiculous; and
+after stammering a few juvenile phrases he left the room.
+
+A few days later the marquise acquired undeniable proofs that Eugene
+had told the truth. For the last fortnight she has not been seen in
+society.
+
+The marquis tells all those who ask him the reason of this
+seclusion:--
+
+"My wife has an inflammation of the stomach."
+
+But I, her physician, who am now attending her, know it is really
+nothing more than a slight nervous attack, which she is making the
+most of in order to stay quietly at home.
+
+
+
+
+ADDENDUM
+
+The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
+
+Bianchon, Horace
+  Father Goriot
+  The Atheist's Mass
+  Cesar Birotteau
+  The Commission in Lunacy
+  Lost Illusions
+  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+  A Bachelor's Establishment
+  The Secrets of a Princess
+  The Government Clerks
+  Pierrette
+  A Study of Woman
+  Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+  Honorine
+  The Seamy Side of History
+  The Magic Skin
+  A Second Home
+  A Prince of Bohemia
+  Letters of Two Brides
+  The Muse of the Department
+  The Imaginary Mistress
+  The Middle Classes
+  Cousin Betty
+  The Country Parson
+In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:
+  Another Study of Woman
+
+Joseph
+  The Magic Skin
+
+Listomere, Marquis de
+  The Lily of the Valley
+  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+
+Listomere, Marquise de
+  The Lily of the Valley
+  Lost Illusions
+  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+  A Daughter of Eve
+
+Rastignac, Eugene de
+  Father Goriot
+  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+  Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+  The Ball at Sceaux
+  The Interdiction
+  Another Study of Woman
+  The Magic Skin
+  The Secrets of a Princess
+  A Daughter of Eve
+  The Gondreville Mystery
+  The Firm of Nucingen
+  Cousin Betty
+  The Member for Arcis
+  The Unconscious Humorists
+
+
+
+
+
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+and Dagny, dagnyj@hotmail.com
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+
+STUDY OF A WOMAN
+
+BY
+
+HONORE DE BALZAC
+
+
+
+Translated By
+Katharine Prescott Wormeley
+
+
+
+
+DEDICATION
+
+To the Marquis Jean-Charles di Negro.
+
+
+
+
+STUDY OF A WOMAN
+
+
+
+
+The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been
+brought up in the spirit of the Restoration. She has principles, she
+fasts, takes the sacrament, and goes to balls and operas very
+elegantly dressed; her confessor permits her to combine the mundane
+with sanctity. Always in conformity with the Church and with the
+world, she presents a living image of the present day, which seems to
+have taken the word "legality" for its motto. The conduct of the
+marquise shows precisely enough religious devotion to attain under a
+new Maintenon to the gloomy piety of the last days of Louis XIV., and
+enough worldliness to adopt the habits of gallantry of the first years
+of that reign, should it ever be revived. At the present moment she is
+strictly virtuous from policy, possibly from inclination. Married for
+the last seven years to the Marquis de Listomere, one of those
+deputies who expect a peerage, she may also consider that such conduct
+will promote the ambitions of her family. Some women are reserving
+their opinion of her until the moment when Monsieur de Listomere
+becomes a peer of France, when she herself will be thirty-six years of
+age,--a period of life when most women discover that they are the
+dupes of social laws.
+
+The marquis is a rather insignificant man. He stands well at court;
+his good qualities are as negative as his defects; the former can no
+more make him a reputation for virtue than the latter can give him the
+sort of glamor cast by vice. As deputy, he never speaks, but he votes
+RIGHT. He behaves in his own home as he does in the Chamber.
+Consequently, he is held to be one of the best husbands in France.
+Though not susceptible of lively interest, he never scolds, unless, to
+be sure, he is kept waiting. His friends have named him "dull
+weather,"--aptly enough, for there is neither clear light nor total
+darkness about him. He is like all the ministers who have succeeded
+one another in France since the Charter. A woman with principles could
+not have fallen into better hands. It is certainly a great thing for a
+virtuous woman to have married a man incapable of follies.
+
+Occasionally some fops have been sufficiently impertinent to press the
+hand of the marquise while dancing with her. They gained nothing in
+return but contemptuous glances; all were made to feel the shock of
+that insulting indifference which, like a spring frost, destroys the
+germs of flattering hopes. Beaux, wits, and fops, men whose sentiments
+are fed by sucking their canes, those of a great name, or a great
+fame, those of the highest or the lowest rank in her own world, they
+all blanch before her. She has conquered the right to converse as long
+and as often as she chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable,
+without being entered on the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish
+women are capable of following a plan of this kind for seven years in
+order to gratify their fancies later; but to suppose any such
+reservations in the Marquise de Listomere would be to calumniate her.
+
+I have had the happiness of knowing this phoenix. She talks well; I
+know how to listen; consequently I please her, and I go to her
+parties. That, in fact, was the object of my ambition.
+
+Neither plain nor pretty, Madame de Listomere has white teeth, a
+dazzling skin, and very red lips; she is tall and well-made; her foot
+is small and slender, and she does not put it forth; her eyes, far
+from being dulled like those of so many Parisian women, have a gentle
+glow which becomes quite magical if, by chance, she is animated. A
+soul is then divined behind that rather indefinite form. If she takes
+an interest in the conversation she displays a grace which is
+otherwise buried beneath the precautions of cold demeanor, and then
+she is charming. She does not seek success, but she obtains it. We
+find that for which we do not seek: that saying is so often true that
+some day it will be turned into a proverb. It is, in fact, the moral
+of this adventure, which I should not allow myself to tell if it were
+not echoing at the present moment through all the salons of Paris.
+
+The Marquise de Listomere danced, about a month ago, with a young man
+as modest as he is lively, full of good qualities, but exhibiting,
+chiefly, his defects. He is ardent, but he laughs at ardor; he has
+talent, and he hides it; he plays the learned man with aristocrats,
+and the aristocrat with learned men. Eugene de Rastignac is one of
+those extremely clever young men who try all things, and seem to sound
+others to discover what the future has in store. While awaiting the
+age of ambition, he scoffs at everything; he has grace and
+originality, two rare qualities because the one is apt to exclude the
+other. On this occasion he talked for nearly half an hour with madame
+de Listomere, without any predetermined idea of pleasing her. As they
+followed the caprices of conversation, which, beginning with the opera
+of "Guillaume Tell," had reached the topic of the duties of women, he
+looked at the marquise, more than once, in a manner that embarrassed
+her; then he left her and did not speak to her again for the rest of
+the evening. He danced, played at ecarte, lost some money, and went
+home to bed. I have the honor to assure you that the affair happened
+precisely thus. I add nothing, and I suppress nothing.
+
+The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself
+up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young
+man glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton
+drapery. The heavier the body from its weight of sleep, the more
+active the mind. Rastignac finally got up, without yawning over-much
+as many ill-bred persons are apt to do. He rang for his valet, ordered
+tea, and drank immoderately of it when it came; which will not seem
+extraordinary to persons who like tea; but to explain the circumstance
+to others, who regard that beverage as a panacea for indigestion, I
+will add that Eugene was, by this time, writing letters. He was
+comfortably seated, with his feet more frequently on the andirons
+than, properly, on the rug. Ah! to have one's feet on the polished bar
+which connects the two griffins of a fender, and to think of our love
+in our dressing-gown is so delightful a thing that I deeply regret the
+fact of having neither mistress, nor fender, nor dressing-gown.
+
+The first letter which Eugene wrote was soon finished; he folded and
+sealed it, and laid it before him without adding the address. The
+second letter, begun at eleven o'clock, was not finished till mid-day.
+The four pages were closely filled.
+
+"That woman keeps running in my head," he muttered, as he folded this
+second epistle and laid it before him, intending to direct it as soon
+as he had ended his involuntary revery.
+
+He crossed the two flaps of his flowered dressing-gown, put his feet
+on a stool, slipped his hands into the pockets of his red cashmere
+trousers, and lay back in a delightful easy-chair with side wings, the
+seat and back of which described an angle of one hundred and twenty
+degrees. He stopped drinking tea and remained motionless, his eyes
+fixed on the gilded hand which formed the knob of his shovel, but
+without seeing either hand or shovel. He ceased even to poke the fire,
+--a vast mistake! Isn't it one of our greatest pleasures to play with
+the fire when we think of women? Our minds find speeches in those tiny
+blue flames which suddenly dart up and babble on the hearth. We
+interpret as we please the strong, harsh tones of a "burgundian."
+
+Here I must pause to put before all ignorant persons an explanation of
+that word, derived from a very distinguished etymologist who wishes
+his name kept secret.
+
+"Burgundian" is the name given, since the reign of Charles VI., to
+those noisy detonations, the result of which is to fling upon the
+carpet or the clothes a little coal or ember, the trifling nucleus of
+a conflagration. Heat or fire releases, they say, a bubble of air left
+in the heart of the wood by a gnawing worm. "Inde amor, inde
+burgundus." We tremble when we see the structure we had so carefully
+erected between the logs rolling down like an avalanche. Oh! to build
+and stir and play with fire when we love is the material development
+of our thoughts.
+
+It was at this moment that I entered the room. Rastignac gave a jump
+and said:--
+
+"Ah! there you are, dear Horace; how long have you been here?"
+
+"Just come."
+
+"Ah!"
+
+He took up the two letters, directed them, and rang for his servant.
+
+"Take these," he said, "and deliver them."
+
+Joseph departed without a word; admirable servant!
+
+We began to talk of the expedition to Morea, to which I was anxious to
+be appointed as physician. Eugene remarked that I should lose a great
+deal of time if I left Paris. We then conversed on various matters,
+and I think you will be glad if I suppress the conversation.
+
+When the Marquise de Listomere rose, about half-past two in the
+afternoon of that day, her waiting-maid, Caroline, gave her a letter
+which she read while Caroline was doing her hair (an imprudence which
+many young women are thoughtless enough to commit).
+
+"Dear angel of love," said the letter, "treasure of my life and
+happiness--"
+
+At these words the marquise was about to fling the letter in the fire;
+but there came into her head a fancy--which all virtuous women will
+readily understand--to see how a man who began a letter in that style
+could possibly end it. When she had turned the fourth page and read
+it, she let her arms drop like a person much fatigued.
+
+"Caroline, go and ask who left this letter."
+
+"Madame, I received it myself from the valet of Monsieur le Baron de
+Rastignac."
+
+After that there was silence for some time.
+
+"Does Madame intend to dress?" asked Caroline at last.
+
+"No-- He is certainly a most impertinent man," reflected the marquise.
+
+I request all women to imagine for themselves the reflections of which
+this was the first.
+
+Madame de Listomere ended hers by a formal decision to forbid her
+porter to admit Monsieur de Rastignac, and to show him, herself,
+something more than disdain when she met him in society; for his
+insolence far surpassed that of other men which the marquise had ended
+by overlooking. At first she thought of keeping the letter; but on
+second thoughts she burned it.
+
+"Madame had just received such a fine love-letter; and she read it,"
+said Caroline to the housemaid.
+
+"I should never have thought that of madame," replied the other, quite
+surprised.
+
+That evening Madame de Listomere went to a party at the Marquis de
+Beauseant's, where Rastignac would probably betake himself. It was
+Saturday. The Marquis de Beauseant was in some way a connection of
+Monsieur de Rastignac, and the young man was not likely to miss
+coming. By two in the morning Madame de Listomere, who had gone there
+solely for the purpose of crushing Eugene by her coldness, discovered
+that she was waiting in vain. A brilliant man--Stendhal--has given the
+fantastic name of "crystallization" to the process which Madame de
+Listomere's thoughts went through before, during, and after this
+evening.
+
+Four days later Eugene was scolding his valet.
+
+"Ah ca! Joseph; I shall soon have to send you away, my lad."
+
+"What is it, monsieur?"
+
+"You do nothing but make mistakes. Where did you carry those letters I
+gave you Saturday?"
+
+Joseph became stolid. Like a statue in some cathedral porch, he stood
+motionless, entirely absorbed in the labors of imagination. Suddenly
+he smiled idiotically, and said:--
+
+"Monsieur, one was for the Marquise de Listomere, the other was for
+Monsieur's lawyer."
+
+"You are certain of what you say?"
+
+Joseph was speechless. I saw plainly that I must interfere, as I
+happened to be again in Eugene's apartment.
+
+"Joseph is right," I said.
+
+Eugene turned and looked at me.
+
+"I read the addresses quite involuntarily, and--"
+
+"And," interrupted Eugene, "one of them was NOT for Madame de
+Nucingen?"
+
+"No, by all the devils, it was not. Consequently, I supposed, my dear
+fellow, that your heart was wandering from the rue Saint-Lazare to the
+rue Saint-Dominique."
+
+Eugene struck his forehead with the flat of his hand and began to
+laugh; by which Joseph perceived that the blame was not on him.
+
+Now, there are certain morals to this tale on which young men had
+better reflect. FIRST MISTAKE: Eugene thought it would be amusing to
+make Madame de Listomere laugh at the blunder which had made her the
+recipient of a love-letter which was not intended for her. SECOND
+MISTAKE: he did not call on Madame de Listomere for several days after
+the adventure, thus allowing the thoughts of that virtuous young woman
+to crystallize. There were other mistakes which I will here pass over
+in silence, in order to give the ladies the pleasure of deducing them,
+"ex professo," to those who are unable to guess them.
+
+Eugene at last went to call upon the marquise; but, on attempting to
+pass into the house, the porter stopped him, saying that Madame la
+marquise was out. As he was getting back into his carriage the Marquis
+de Listomere came home.
+
+"Come in, Eugene," he said. "My wife is at home."
+
+Pray excuse the marquis. A husband, however good he may be, never
+attains perfection. As they went up the staircase Rastignac perceived
+at least a dozen blunders in worldly wisdom which had, unaccountably,
+slipped into this page of the glorious book of his life.
+
+When Madame de Listomere saw her husband ushering in Eugene she could
+not help blushing. The young baron saw that sudden color. If the most
+humble-minded man retains in the depths of his soul a certain conceit
+of which he never rids himself, any more than a woman ever rids
+herself of coquetry, who shall blame Eugene if he did say softly in
+his own mind: "What! that fortress, too?" So thinking, he posed in his
+cravat. Young men may not be grasping but they like to get a new coin
+in their collection.
+
+Monsieur de Listomere seized the "Gazette de France," which he saw on
+the mantelpiece, and carried it to a window, to obtain, by
+journalistic help, an opinion of his own on the state of France.
+
+A woman, even a prude, is never long embarrassed, however difficult
+may be the position in which she finds herself; she seems always to
+have on hand the fig-leaf which our mother Eve bequeathed to her.
+Consequently, when Eugene, interpreting, in favor of his vanity, the
+refusal to admit him, bowed to Madame de Listomere in a tolerably
+intentional manner, she veiled her thoughts behind one of those
+feminine smiles which are more impenetrable than the words of a king.
+
+"Are you unwell, madame? You denied yourself to visitors."
+
+"I am well, monsieur."
+
+"Perhaps you were going out?"
+
+"Not at all."
+
+"You expected some one?"
+
+"No one."
+
+"If my visit is indiscreet you must blame Monsieur le marquis. I had
+already accepted your mysterious denial, when he himself came up, and
+introduced me into the sanctuary."
+
+"Monsieur de Listomere is not in my confidence on this point. It is
+not always prudent to put a husband in possession of certain secrets."
+
+The firm and gentle tones in which the marquise said these words, and
+the imposing glance which she cast upon Rastignac made him aware that
+he had posed in his cravat a trifle prematurely.
+
+"Madame, I understand you," he said, laughing. "I ought, therefore, to
+be doubly thankful that Monsieur le marquis met me; he affords me an
+opportunity to offer you excuses which might be full of danger were
+you not kindness itself."
+
+The marquise looked at the young man with an air of some surprise, but
+she answered with dignity:--
+
+"Monsieur, silence on your part will be the best excuse. As for me, I
+promise you entire forgetfulness, and the pardon which you scarcely
+deserve."
+
+"Madame," said Rastignac, hastily, "pardon is not needed where there
+was no offence. The letter," he added, in a low voice, "which you
+received, and which you must have thought extremely unbecoming, was
+not intended for you."
+
+The marquise could not help smiling, though she wished to seem
+offended.
+
+"Why deceive?" she said, with a disdainful air, although the tones of
+her voice were gentle. "Now that I have duly scolded you, I am willing
+to laugh at a subterfuge which is not without cleverness. I know many
+women who would be taken in by it: 'Heavens! how he loves me!' they
+would say."
+
+Here the marquise gave a forced laugh, and then added, in a tone of
+indulgence:--
+
+"If we desire to continue friends let there be no more MISTAKES, of
+which it is impossible that I should be the dupe."
+
+"Upon my honor, madame, you are so--far more than you think," replied
+Eugene.
+
+"What are you talking about?" asked Monsieur de Listomere, who, for
+the last minute, had been listening to the conversation, the meaning
+of which he could not penetrate.
+
+"Oh! nothing that would interest you," replied his wife.
+
+Monsieur de Listomere tranquilly returned to the reading of his paper,
+and presently said:--
+
+"Ah! Madame de Mortsauf is dead; your poor brother has, no doubt, gone
+to Clochegourde."
+
+"Are you aware, monsieur," resumed the marquise, turning to Eugene,
+"that what you have just said is a great impertinence?"
+
+"If I did not know the strictness of your principles," he answered,
+naively, "I should think that you wished either to give me ideas which
+I deny myself, or else to tear a secret from me. But perhaps you are
+only amusing yourself with me."
+
+The marquise smiled. That smile annoyed Eugene.
+
+"Madame," he said, "can you still believe in an offence I have not
+committed? I earnestly hope that chance may not enable you to discover
+the name of the person who ought to have read that letter."
+
+"What! can it be STILL Madame de Nucingen?" cried Madame de Listomere,
+more eager to penetrate that secret than to revenge herself for the
+impertinence of the young man's speeches.
+
+Eugene colored. A man must be more than twenty-five years of age not
+to blush at being taxed with a fidelity that women laugh at--in order,
+perhaps, not to show that they envy it. However, he replied with
+tolerable self-possession:--
+
+"Why not, madame?"
+
+Such are the blunders we all make at twenty-five.
+
+This speech caused a violent commotion in Madame de Listomere's bosom;
+but Rastignac did not yet know how to analyze a woman's face by a
+rapid or sidelong glance. The lips of the marquise paled, but that was
+all. She rang the bell for wood, and so constrained Rastignac to rise
+and take his leave.
+
+"If that be so," said the marquise, stopping Eugene with a cold and
+rigid manner, "you will find it difficult to explain, monsieur, why
+your pen should, by accident, write my name. A name, written on a
+letter, is not a friend's opera-hat, which you might have taken,
+carelessly, on leaving a ball."
+
+Eugene, discomfited, looked at the marquise with an air that was both
+stupid and conceited. He felt that he was becoming ridiculous; and
+after stammering a few juvenile phrases he left the room.
+
+A few days later the marquise acquired undeniable proofs that Eugene
+had told the truth. For the last fortnight she has not been seen in
+society.
+
+The marquis tells all those who ask him the reason of this
+seclusion:--
+
+"My wife has an inflammation of the stomach."
+
+But I, her physician, who am now attending her, know it is really
+nothing more than a slight nervous attack, which she is making the
+most of in order to stay quietly at home.
+
+
+
+
+ADDENDUM
+
+The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
+
+Bianchon, Horace
+  Father Goriot
+  The Atheist's Mass
+  Cesar Birotteau
+  The Commission in Lunacy
+  Lost Illusions
+  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+  A Bachelor's Establishment
+  The Secrets of a Princess
+  The Government Clerks
+  Pierrette
+  A Study of Woman
+  Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+  Honorine
+  The Seamy Side of History
+  The Magic Skin
+  A Second Home
+  A Prince of Bohemia
+  Letters of Two Brides
+  The Muse of the Department
+  The Imaginary Mistress
+  The Middle Classes
+  Cousin Betty
+  The Country Parson
+In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:
+  Another Study of Woman
+ 
+Joseph
+  The Magic Skin
+
+Listomere, Marquis de
+  The Lily of the Valley
+  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+
+Listomere, Marquise de
+  The Lily of the Valley
+  Lost Illusions
+  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+  A Daughter of Eve
+
+Rastignac, Eugene de
+  Father Goriot
+  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
+  Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
+  The Ball at Sceaux
+  The Interdiction
+  Another Study of Woman
+  The Magic Skin
+  The Secrets of a Princess
+  A Daughter of Eve
+  The Gondreville Mystery
+  The Firm of Nucingen
+  Cousin Betty
+  The Member for Arcis
+  The Unconscious Humorists
+
+
+
+
+
+End of The Project Gutenberg Etext of Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac
+
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