Sarrasine

By

Honore de Balzac


Translated by

Clara Bell and others




DEDICATION

To Monsieur Charles Bernard du Grail.




SARRASINE



I was buried in one of those profound reveries to which everybody,
even a frivolous man, is subject in the midst of the most uproarious
festivities. The clock on the Elysee-Bourbon had just struck midnight.
Seated in a window recess and concealed behind the undulating folds of
a curtain of watered silk, I was able to contemplate at my leisure the