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www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 Vendetta by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley 1 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 DEDICATION To Puttinati, Milanese Sculptor. 2 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 CHAPTER I PROLOGUE In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner,accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins which was intended to unite the chateau of Catherine de Medici with the Louvre of the Valois. The man stood there with folded arms and a bowed head, which he sometimes raised to look alternately at the consular palace and at his wife, who was sitting near him on a stone. Though the woman seemed wholly occupied with the little girl of nine or ten years of age,whose long black hair she amused herself by handling, she lost not a single glance of those her companion cast on her. Some 3 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps, the most powerful of all ties. The stranger had one of those broad, serious heads, covered with thick hair, which we see so frequently in the pictures of the Caracci. The jet black of the hair was streaked with white. Though noble and proud