The honest man, that species of puritan not unlike the father of Jeannie Deans, of whom I have already told you, and who, up to the present moment hadn't uttered a word, shrugged his shoulders, as he looked at me and said:-- "Idiot! why did you ask him if he came from Beauvais?" ADDENDUM The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy. Taillefer, Jean-Frederic The Firm of Nucingen Father Goriot The Magic Skin Taillefer, Victorine Father Goriot End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Red Inn, by Honore de Balzac