EBOOK THE VILLAGE RECTOR ***
Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny
THE VILLAGE RECTOR
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated by
Katharine Prescott Wormeley
DEDICATION
To Helene.
The tiniest boat is not launched upon the sea without the
protection of some living emblem or revered name, placed upon it
by the mariners. In accordance with this time-honored custom,
Madame, I pray you to be the protectress of this book now launched
upon our literary ocean; and may the Imperial name which the
Church has canonized and your devotion has doubly sanctified for
me guard it from perils.
De Balzac.
THE VILLAGE RECTOR
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THE SAUVIATS
In the lower town of Limoges, at the corner of the rue de la
Vieille-Poste and the rue de la Cite might have been seen, a generation
ago, one of those shops which were scarcely changed from the period of
the middle-ages. Large tiles seamed with a thousand cracks lay on the
soil itself, which was damp in places, and would have tripped up those
who failed to observe the hollows and ridges of this singular flooring.
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