MADAME FIRMIANI

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC


Translated By

Katharine Prescott Wormeley




DEDICATION

To my dear Alexandre de Berny.
His old friend,

De Balzac.




MADAME FIRMIANI

Many tales, either rich in situations or made dramatic by some of the
innumerable tricks of chance, carry with them their own particular
setting, which can be rendered artistically or simply by those who
narrate them, without their subjects losing any, even the least of