Cousin Pons

COUSIN PONS

By Honore De Balzac

Translated by Ellen Marriage

COUSIN PONS

Towards three o’clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italiens with his head bent down, as if he were tracking some one. There was a smug expres...