Eugenie Grandet

EUGENIE GRANDET

By Honore De Balzac

Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

DEDICATION

To Maria.

May your name, that of one whose portrait is the noblest ornament of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless the house.

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