A DRAMA ON THE SEASHORE

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC



Translated By
Katharine Prescott Wormeley




DEDICATION

To Madame la Princesse Caroline Galitzin de Genthod, nee Comtesse
Walewska. Homage and remembrances of

The Author.




A DRAMA ON THE SEASHORE

Nearly all young men have a compass with which they delight in
measuring the future. When their will is equal to the breadth of the
angle at which they open it the world is theirs. But this phenomenon
of the inner life takes place only at a certain age. That age, which