A new some seventy pages describing, how Balzac, a linen trading house under the second part of the empire, with, in thread, marriage and the marital problems of the youngest daughter of this House Cat and Racket. Only here Balzac Balzac: the style is dated, but it is strong, and The approach is more complex than it seems. First, the description is not simply naturalistic or historical, but the trading house is a real world unto itself, and the two daughters of the house that are born and reared there are impregnated them. However, "Augustine had received a fairly high chance to feel the soul of this empty existence. "She falls for a painter, aristocrat and rich, while his eldest sister wife reasonably chief clerk of the house. Except that the marriage of passionate love, spent a year honeymoon, will collapse, the aristocrat-artist not finding his pretty young wife enough intellectual, while marriage without being in love, the older sister and committed, well matched, held him in time "A husband who spoke Greek and Latin woman could die of hunger. "The poor Augustine is like that cat painting, playing the ball with a gentleman in embroidered coat A disparate marriage therefore takes no further than passionate love. Yet Augustine has the great quality of being in her heart, when her husband is only in légoïsme and individualism of his admittedly brilliant mind. Moral: lively marriage of love (which virtually does not exist then) but not disparate; live mostly a live marriage in the heart