By Honore De Balzac

Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

CONTENTS

DEDICATION

URSULA

CHAPTER I.   THE FRIGHTENED HEIRS

CHAPTER II.   THE RICH UNCLE

CHAPTER III.   THE DOCTOR'S FRIENDS

CHAPTER IV.   ZELIE

CHAPTER V.   URSULA

CHAPTER VI.   A TREATISE ON MESMERISM

CHAPTER VII.   A TWO-FOLD CONVERSION

CHAPTER VIII.   THE CONFERENCE

CHAPTER IX.   A FIRST CONFIDENCE

CHAPTER X.   THE FAMILY OF PORTENDUERE

CHAPTER XI.   SAVINIEN SAVED

CHAPTER XII.   OBSTACLES TO YOUNG LOVE

CHAPTER XIII.   BETROTHAL OF HEARTS

CHAPTER XIV.   URSULA AGAIN ORPHANED

CHAPTER XV.   THE DOCTOR'S WILL

CHAPTER XVI.   THE TWO ADVERSARIES

CHAPTER XVII.   THE MALIGNITY OF PROVINCIAL MINDS

CHAPTER XVIII.      A TWO-FOLD VENGEANCE

CHAPTER XIX.   APPARITIONS

CHAPTER XX.   REMORSE

CHAPTER XXI.   SHOWING HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO STEAL
THAT WHICH SEEMS VERY EASILY STOLEN
ADDENDUM