“ Where some one else’s welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. ”
Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot (1835). copy citation
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
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Source | Father Goriot |
Topic | welfare girl |
Date | 1835 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Ellen Marriage |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1237/1237-h/1237-h.htm |
Context
“I wish I could give them every sort of happiness! Fifteen hundred and fifty francs,” he went on after a pause. “Every shot must go to the mark! Laure is right. Trust a woman! I have only calico shirts. Where some one else’s welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,—she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.”
The world lay before him. His tailor had been summoned and sounded, and had finally surrendered.”
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