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EBOOK THE HATED SON ***


Produced by John Bickers and Dagny


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.
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