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The Stepmother
Honoré de Balzac
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Gertrude—your angel—who has become to you like all other angels,
after their metamorphoses into a lawful wives.
Ferdinand
'Tis a hundred times worse than that! Gertrude, my dear sir, is now
Madame de Grandchamp.
Ramel
Oh, dear! How is it you've thrust yourself into such a hornets' nest?
Ferdinand In the same way that people always thrust themselves into hornets' nests; that is, with the hope of finding honey there.
Ramel Oh, oh! This is a very serious matter! Now, really, you must conceal nothing from me.
Ferdinand Mlle. Gertrude de Meilhac, educated at St. Denis, without doubt loved me first of all through ambition; she was glad to know that I was rich, and did all she could to gain my attachment with a view to marriage.
Ramel
Such is the game of . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
If hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, then two women scorned by one another makes for a whole new level of hellish fury. In this play Balzac dramatizes a young woman and her stepmother in a love triangle where one-upmanship and unchecked cupidity leads to a dangerous game of survival.
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