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La Comedie Humaine Volume 31 by Honore de Balzac

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Author: Honore de Balzac
Number of Pages: 84 pages
Published Date: 13 Sep 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781230018720
File size: 25 Mb
Download Link: La Comedie Humaine Volume 31
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...settle down and work and live prudently. It was you who fired that shot, --here, on land belonging to the Comte de Labranchoir. Hein! suppose his game-keeper had heard it, foolish man? It is lucky for you, I won't indict you. for this is not your first offence, and you have no license to carry arms. Did n't I let you keep your gun simply because I knew your affection for it?" "It is a beauty," said the captain, recognizing a duck-gun from the manufactory at Saint-Etienne on the Loire. The poacher looked up at Genestas as if to thank him for his approbation. " Butifcr," continued Benassis, "your conscience ought to reproach you. If you recommcnce your old courses, you 'll find yourself cornered some day in a. park enclosed with walls. No protection can then save you from the galleys; you 'll be branded, disgraced. Bring me your gun this very night, I'll take care of it for you." Butifer clasped the stock of his treasure with a convulsive movement. "You are right, monsieur le maire," he said. "I have done wrong; I have broken my pledge; I'm a dog. My gun must go to you, but you will get it as a legacy. The last shot fired by the child of my mother goes through my brain. I can't help it; I have done as you wished; I have kept quiet all winter; but in the spring the sap rises. I don't know how to dig; I have n't got the heart to spend my life fattening chickens; and I can't bend my spine to spade vegetables, nor lash the air driving carts, nor live in a stable and rub down a horse's hide: must I therefore perish of hunger?--I can't live, except up there," he said, after a pause, pointing to the mountains. ..".

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