The Jealousies of a Country Town
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Jealousies of a Country Town
                                            
                            By Honoré de Balzac
                            
                                3 Jan, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Excerpt........On a Wednesday morning, early, toward the middle of spring, in the year 16,—such was his mode of reckoning,—at the moment when the chevalier was putting on his old green-flowered damask dressing-gown, he heard, despite the cotton i
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                                                Excerpt........On a Wednesday morning, early, toward the middle of spring, in the year 16,—such was his mode of reckoning,—at the moment when the chevalier was putting on his old green-flowered damask dressing-gown, he heard, despite the cotton in his ears, the light step of a young girl who was running up the stairway. Presently three taps were discreetly struck upon the door; then, without waiting for any response, a handsome girl slipped like an eel into the room occupied by the old bachelor. Less