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Study of a Woman by Honoré de Balzac
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letter, is not a friend's opera-hat, which you might have taken,
carelessly, on leaving a ball."

Eugene, discomfited, looked at the marquise with an air that was both
stupid and conceited. He felt that he was becoming ridiculous; and
after stammering a few juvenile phrases he left the room.

A few days later the marquise acquired undeniable proofs that Eugene
had told the truth. For the last fortnight she has not been seen in
society.

The marquis tells all those who ask him the reason of this
seclusion:--

"My wife has an inflammation of the stomach."

But I, her physician, who am now attending her, know it is really
nothing more than a slight nervous attack, which she is making the
most of in order to stay quietly at home.




ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

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