Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part

Honoré De Balzac

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARRIED LIFE ***

PREFACE If, reader, you have grasped the intent of this book,—and infinite honor is done you by the supposition: the profoundest author does not always comprehend, I may say never comprehends, the different meanings of his book, nor its bearing, nor the good nor the harm it may do—if, then, you have bestowed some attention upon these little scenes of married life, you have perhaps noticed their color— "What color?" some grocer will doubtless ask; "books are bound in yellow, blue, green, pearl-gray, white—" Alas! books possess another color, they are dyed by the author, and certain writers borrow their dye. Some books let their color come off on to others. More than this. Books are dark or fair, light brown or red. They have a sex, too! I know of male books, and female books, of books which, sad to say, have no sex, which we hope is not the case with this one, supposing that you do this collection of nosographic sketches the honor of calling it a book. Thus far, the troubles we have described have been exclusively inflicted by the wife upon the husband. You have therefore seen only the masculine side of the book. And if the author really has the sense of hearing for which we give him credit, he has already caught more than one indignant exclamation or remonstrance: "He tells us of nothing but vexations suffered by our husbands, as if we didn't have our petty troubles, too!" Oh, women! You have been heard, for if you do not always make yourselves understood, you are always sure to make yourselves heard. It would therefore be signally unjust to lay upon you alone the reproaches that every being brought under the yoke ( conjugium ) has the right to heap upon that necessary, sacred, useful, eminently conservative institution,—one, however, that is often somewhat of an encumbrance, and tight about the joints, though sometimes it is also too loose there. I will go further! Such partiality would be a piece of idiocy.

PETTY TROUBLES OF MARRIED LIFE PART SECOND BY HONOREDEBALZAC

Produced by Dagny; and John Bickers

Title: Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part Author: Honore de Balzac Release Date: June 28, 2005 [EBook #6403] Language: English

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PETTY TROUBLES OF MARRIED LIFE

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"Yes, I admired him, I thought you very happy, you had found your ideal, a fine, good-sized man, always well dressed, with yellow gloves, his beard well shaven, patent leather boots, a clean shirt, exquisitely neat, and so attentive—" "Yes, yes, go on." "In short, quite an elegant man: his voice was femininely sweet, and then such gentleness! And his promises of happiness and liberty! His sentences were veneered with rosewood. He stocked his conversation with shawls and laces. In his smallest expression you heard the rumbling of a coach and four. Your wedding presents were magnificent. Armand seemed to me like a husband of velvet, of a robe of birds' feathers in which you were to be wrapped." "Caroline, my husband uses tobacco." "So does mine; that is, he smokes." "But mine, dear, uses it as they say Napoleon did: in short, he chews, and I hold tobacco in horror. The monster found it out, and went without out it for seven months." "All men have their habits. They absolutely must use something." "You have no idea of the tortures I endure. At night I am awakened with a start by one of my own sneezes. As I go to sleep my motions bring the grains of snuff scattered over the pillow under my nose, I inhale, and explode like a mine. It seems that Armand, the wretch, is used to these surprises up. I find tobacco everywhere, and I, and doesn't wake certainly didn't marry the customs office." "But, my dear child, what does this trifling inconvenience amount to, if your husband is kind and possesses a good disposition?" "He is as cold as marble, as particular as an old bachelor, as communicative as a sentinel; and he's one of those men who say yes to everything, but who never do anything but what they want to. " "Deny him, once " . "I've tried it " . "What came of it?" "He threatened to reduce my allowance, and to keep back a sum big enough for him to get along without me " . "Poor Stephanie! He's not a man, he's a monster." "A calm and methodical monster, who wears a scratch, and who, every night—" "Well, every night—" "Wait a minute!—who takes a tumbler every night, and puts seven false teeth in it." "What a trap your marriage was! At any rate, Armand is rich." "Who knows?" "Good heavens! Why, you seem to me on the point of becoming very unhappy—or very happy." "Well, dear, how is it with you?" "Oh, as for me, I have nothing as yet but a pin that pricks me: but it is intolerable." "Poor creature! You don't know your own happiness: come, what is it?" Here the young woman whispered in the other's ear, so that it was impossible to catch a single word. The conversation recommenced, or rather finished by a sort of inference. "So, your Adolphe is jealous?" "Jealous of whom? We never leave each other, and that, in itself, is an annoyance. I can't stand it. I don't dare to gape. I am expected to be forever enacting the woman in love. It's fatiguing." "Caroline?" "Well?" "What are you going to do?" "Resign myself. What are you?

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DISAPPOINTED AMBITION.

I. CHODOREILLE THE GREAT.

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