FAREWELL

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC

Translated By
Ellen Marriage



DEDICATION

To Prince Friedrich von Schwarzenberg





FAREWELL



"Come, Deputy of the Centre, come along! We shall have to mend our
pace if we mean to sit down to dinner when every one else does, and
that's a fact! Hurry up! Jump, Marquis! That's it! Well done! You are
bounding over the furrows just like a stag!"

These words were uttered by a sportsman seated much at his ease on the
outskirts of the Foret de l'Isle-Adam; he had just finished a Havana