*** start of the project gutenberg ebook 1380 *** the two brothers by honore de balzac translated by katharine prescott wormeley dedication to monsieur charles nodier, member of the french academy, etc. here, my dear nodier, is a book filled with deeds that are screened from the action of the laws by the closed doors of domestic life; but as to which the finger of god, often called chance, supplies the place of human justice, and in which the moral is none the less striking and inst...