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Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication  Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright ? 2002 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university.  Balzac Eugenie Grandet EUGENIE GRANDET I by THERE ARE HOUSES in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre clois- ters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and move- ment are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccus- tomed step. Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Mari