Excerpt from A Marriage Settlement, And, Modeste Mignon: And Other Stories Nor ought we to omit notice of the careful study of the apprenticeship of a lawyer's clerk, wherein, as elsewhere no doubt, Balzac profited by his own novitiate. Altogether the story isja pleasant one, and we acquiesce in the tempering of the wind to Oscar when that ordinary person is consoled for his sufferings with the paradise of the French bourgeois -a respectable place, a wife with no dangerous brilliancy, and a good dot. U ne Double Famine, which had an almost unusually com plicated history and several titles, appears here (for reasons of practical convenience) out of its old place in conjunction with the Chat qm' Pelote. It is a good specimen of Balzac's average work, neither much above nor much below the run of its fellows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was one of the premiere French novelists. This is a collection of his stories.