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Title: The Hated Son

Author: Honore de Balzac

Release Date: October 31, 2004 [EBook #1455]

Language: English

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THE HATED SON

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC



Translated By
Katharine Prescott Wormeley




DEDICATION

To Madame la Baronne James Rothschild.




THE HATED SON




PART I

HOW THE MOTHER LIVED



CHAPTER I

A BEDROOM OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

On a winter's night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne
d'Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her
inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the
instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced
her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new
sufferings, or to reflect on her situation. She was a prey to cruel
fears,--caused less by the dread of a first lying-in, which terrifies
most women, than by certain dangers which awaited her child.

In order not to awaken her husband who was sleeping beside her, the
poor woman moved with precautions which her intense terror made as
minute as those of a prisoner endeavoring to escape. Though the pains
became more and more severe, she ceased to feel them, so completely
did she concentrate her own strength on the painful effort o

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