Sarrasine

SARRASINE

By Honore de Balzac

Translated by Clara Bell and others

DEDICATION

To Monsieur Charles Bernard du Grail.

SARRASINE

I was buried in one of those profound reveries to which everybody, even a frivolous man, is subject in the midst of the most uproarious festivities. The clock on the Elysee-Bourbon had just struck midnight. Seated in a window recess ...