_ Title: Modeste Mignon
       Author: Honore de Balzac
       Translated by: Katharine Prescott Wormeley
        
       DEDICATION
       To a Polish Lady.
       Daughter of an enslaved land, angel through love, witch through fancy, child by faith, aged by experience, man in brain, woman in heart, giant by hope, mother through sorrows, poet in thy dreams, --to _thee_ belongs this book, in which thy love, thy fancy, thy experience, thy sorrow, thy hope, thy dreams, are the warp through which is shot a woof less brilliant than the poesy of thy soul, whose expression, when it shines upon thy countenance, is, to those who love thee, what the characters of a lost language are to scholars.
       De Balzac.
       MODESTE MIGNON _

Preface
Chapter 1. The Chalet
Chapter 2. A Portrait From Life
Chapter 3. Preliminaries
Chapter 4. A Simple Story
Chapter 5. The Problem Still Unsolved
Chapter 6. A Maiden's First Romance
Chapter 7. A Poet Of The Angelic School
Chapter 8. Blade To Blade
Chapter 9. The Power Of The Unseen
Chapter 10. The Marriage Of Souls
Chapter 11. What Comes Of Correspondence
Chapter 12. A Declaration Of Love,--Set To Music
Chapter 13. A Full-Length Portrait Of Monsieur De La Briere
Chapter 14. Matters Grown Complicated
Chapter 15. A Father Steps In
Chapter 16. Disenchanted
Chapter 17. A Third Suitor
Chapter 18. A Splendid First Appearance
Chapter 19. Of Which The Author Thinks A Good Deal
Chapter 20. The Poet Does His Exercises
Chapter 21. Modeste Plays Her Part
Chapter 22. A Riddle Guessed
Chapter 23. Butscha Distinguishes Himself
Chapter 24. The Poet Feels That He Is Loved Too Well
Chapter 25. A Diplomatic Letter
Chapter 26. True Love
Chapter 27. A Girl's Revenge
Chapter 28. Modeste Behaves With Dignity
Chapter 29. Conclusion