At a Parisian banker’s dinner, a German guest from Nuremberg tells a story of the revolutionary wars: two young French army surgeons, marching to the Rhine in 1799, share a room at an inn near Andernach with a merchant carrying a fortune, and by morning he is dead. As the tale unfolds, one of the listeners at the table grows ghastly and still.
A tight, haunting tale of guilt and conscience from The Human Comedy. Download the free EPUB.