Hippolyte Schinner, a promising young painter, falls in his studio and comes to in the care of two women living in genteel poverty on the floor below. As he falls in love with the daughter, Adélaïde, he grows uneasy about the shabby old gentlemen who gather in her mother’s rooms to play cards, and about a purse that goes missing.
A delicate short piece from La Comédie humaine, Balzac at his most tender. Download the free EPUB.