Chapter One:
I. "This face revealed a dangerous cunning, a calculated integrity, the egoism of a man accustomed to limit his emotions to the joys of avarice and the only being who really meant anything to him, his daughter Eugenie, his sole heiress."
II. "For a farm girl who in her youth had reaped nothing but ill treatment, for a beggar in rags given shelter out of charity, Old Grandet's equivocal laugh was a genuine ray of sunshine. Moreover Nanon's simple heart, her limited intelligence, had room for one emotion and one idea at a time."
Chapter Two:
I. "Now if you would understand the…
