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The Alkahest, a novel by Honore de Balzac

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_ THE ALKAHEST
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC


Translated By
Katharine Prescott Wormeley


DEDICATION

To Madame Josephine Delannoy nee Doumerc.

Madame, may God grant that this, my book, may live longer than I,
for then the gratitude which I owe to you, and which I hope will
equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the
limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of
prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work
we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining
it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those
who aspire to such an immortality.

Yet again I say--May God grant it!

HONORE DE BALZAC. _

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