THE RED INN

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC



Translated by

Katharine Prescott Wormeley




DEDICATION

To Monsieur le Marquis de Custine.




THE RED INN



In I know not what year a Parisian banker, who had very extensive
commercial relations with Germany, was entertaining at dinner one of
those friends whom men of business often make in the markets of the
world through correspondence; a man hitherto personally unknown to