When Madame Schinner had paid her respects to Madame de Rouville, the Baroness looked at the Comte de Kergarouet, at the Chevalier du Halga—the friend of the departed Comtesse de Kergarouet—at Hippolyte, and Adelaide, and said, with the grace that comes from the heart, “So we are a family party this evening.”

PARIS, May 1832

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ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

Bixiou, Jean-Jacques
A Bachelor’s Establishment
The Government Clerks
Modeste Mignon
Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
The Firm of Nucingen
The Muse of the Department
Cousin Betty
The Member for Arcis
Beatrix
A Man of Business
Gaudissart II.
The Unconscious Humorists
Cousin Pons
Bridau, Joseph
A Bachelor’s Establishment
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Start in Life
Modeste Mignon
Another Study of Woman
Pierre Grassou
Letters of Two Brides
Cousin Betty
The Member for Arcis
Halga, Chevalier du
Beatrix
Kergarouet, Comte de
The Ball at Sceaux
Ursule Mirouet
Molineux, Jean-Baptiste
A Second Home
Cesar Birotteau
Schinner, Hippolyte
A Bachelor’s Establishment
Pierre Grassou
A Start in Life
Albert Savarus
The Government Clerks
Modeste Mignon
The Imaginary Mistress
The Unconscious Humorists
Souchet, Francois
The Imaginary Mistress
A Daughter of Eve