d'albon's

Updated: June 26, 2025

He will soon come to you." "Then it was really she!" cried de Sucy at d'Albon's first words. "Ah! I still doubted it," he added, a few tears falling from his eyes, which were habitually stern. "Yes, it is the Comtesse de Vandieres," replied the marquis. The colonel rose abruptly from his bed and began to dress. "Philippe!" cried his friend, "are you mad?"

Honoré de Balzac - Adieu

"Ah! monsieur," he went on, grasping M. d'Albon's hand, "what a fearful life for a poor little thing, so young, so delicate! She went barefoot, I heard, ill-clad, neglected, and starved for months at a time; sometimes confined to a hospital, sometimes living like a hunted animal. God alone knows all the misery which she endured, and yet she lives.

Honoré de Balzac - Farewell