the red inn

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    The Red Innby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo Monsieur le Marquis de Custine.THE RED INNIn I know not what year a Parisian banker, who had very extensivecommercial relations with Germany, was entertaining at dinner one ofthose friends whom men of business often make in the markets of theworld through correspondence; a man hitherto personally unknown tohim. This friend, the head of a rather important house in Nuremburg,was a stout worthy German, a man of taste and erudition, above all aman of pipes, having a fine, broad, Nuremburgian face, with a square...