For Balzac, success in marital relations depended on partners being well matched both in temperament and in social class. In this story, a young lawyer marries a childhood friend, only to discover too late that she has become narrow-mindedly religious.

To escape the sanctimonious chill of this marital home, the lawyer sets up an impoverished seamstress as his mistress. 

Translated by Clara Bell.

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