prebaudet

Updated: May 2, 2025

Presently, in spite of a driving rain, Mademoiselle Cormon drove away from Prebaudet, leaving her factotums with the reins on their necks. Jacquelin dared not take upon himself to hasten the usual little trot of the peaceable Penelope, who, like the beautiful queen whose name she bore, had an appearance of making as many steps backward as she made forward.

Honoré de Balzac - An Old Maid

Mariette, the cook, who had been fifteen years in the household, knew how to make all the dishes held in most honor in Alencon. Perhaps we ought to count for much the fat old Norman brown-bay mare, which drew Mademoiselle Cormon to her country-seat at Prebaudet; for the five inhabitants of the house bore to this animal a maniacal affection.

Honoré de Balzac - An Old Maid