Excerpt from A Marriage Settlement (Le Contrat De Mariage): And Other Stories
Nor ought we to omit notice of the careful study of the apprenticeship of a lawyer's clerk, wherein, as else where no doubt, Balzac profited by his own novitiate. Altogether the story is a pleasant one, and we acquiesce in the tempering of the wind to Oscar when that ordinary person is consoled for his sufferings with the paradise of the French bourgeois - a respectable place, a wife with no dangerous brilliancy, and a good dot.
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