不自知的喜剧演__Honore De Balzac.pdf

英文名著3000 本 Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley 1 英文名著3000 本 DEDICATION To Monsieur le Comte Jules de Castellane. 2 英文名著3000 本 UNCONSCIOUS COMEDIANS Leon de Lora, our celebrated landscape painter, belongs to one of the noblest families of the Roussillon (Spanish originally) which,although distinguished for the antiquity of its race, has been doomed for a century to the proverbial poverty of hidalgos. Coming,light-footed, to Paris from the department of the Eastern Pyrenees,with the sum of eleven francs in his pocket for all viaticum, he had in some degree forgotten the miseries and privations of his childhood and his family amid the other privations and miseries which are never lacking to rapins, whose whole fortune consists of intrepid vocation. Later, the cares of fame and those of success were other causes of forgetfulness. If you have followed the capricious and meandering 3 英文名著3000 本 course of these studies, perhaps you will remember Mistigris, Schinners pupil, one of the heroes of A Start in Life (Scenes from Private Life), and his brief apparitions in other Scenes. In 1845, this landscape painter,emulator of the Hobbemas, Ruysdaels, and Lorraines, resembles no more the shabby, frisky rapin whom we then knew. Now an illustrious man, he owns a charming house in the rue de Berlin, not far from the hotel de Brambourg,