THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN EYES
by HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated by Ellen Marriage
DEDICATION
To Eugene Delacroix, Painter.
PREPARER'S NOTE
The Girl with the Golden Eyes is the third part of a trilogy. Part
one is entitled Ferragus and part two is The Duchesse de Langeais.
The three stories are frequently combined under the title The
Thirteen.
THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN EYES
One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is,
surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace--a people fearful
to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in
perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath which are whirled
along a crop of human beings, who are, more often than not, reaped by
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