



Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny





JUANA


BY HONORE DE BALZAC



Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley



                             DEDICATION

                  To Madame la Comtesse Merlin.




JUANA

(THE MARANAS)




CHAPTER I. EXPOSITION

Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced into
his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of trouble and
disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certain fair-minded
military men, this intoxication of victory bore a striking resemblance
to pillage, though the marechal promptly suppressed it. Order being
re-established, each regiment quartered in its respective lines, and
the commandant of the city appointed, military administration began. The
place assumed a mongrel aspect. Though all things were organized on a
French system, the Spaniards were left free to