COLONEL CHABERT

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC


Translated by

Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell




DEDICATION

To Madame la Comtesse Ida de Bocarme nee du Chasteler.





COLONEL CHABERT



"HULLO! There is that old Box-coat again!"

This exclamation was made by a lawyer's clerk of the class called in
French offices a gutter-jumper--a messenger in fact--who at this